CÔTE D'IVOIRE

ABSTRACT Community actors carry out many different activities in the HIV response: awareness raising and prevention activities, as well as HIV testing and referrals to health care facilities. The diversity of individuals and groups reached by community actors is as great as their versatility and the success of the peer education approach. In this article, we look at the role of peer educators and hear from teams in.

ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General’s second audit of the Global Fund grants to Côte d’Ivoire revealed significant changes in grant implementation arrangements due to the creation of a program management unit. However, the lack of a clearly defined vision for the newly created project management unit hinders its growth and development. The audit revealed that Côte d’Ivoire had made little progress in meeting malaria targets. Furthermore, the country has a high death rate among people with comorbidity of HIV and tuberculosis. The Office of the Inspector General noted that malaria and tuberculosis health commodities are not safe from leakage at health facilities. Better coordination and joint planning from districts which are funded for the same activities by both the Global Fund and President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief are necessary.

RÉSUMÉ Les modalités de mise en œuvre des subventions du Fonds mondial pour la Côte d'Ivoire étaient « partiellement efficaces », a indiqué le Bureau de l'Inspecteur général à la suite de l’audit mené en 2016. Le BIG a évalué les mécanismes de contrôle et d'assurance de la chaîne d'approvisionnement comme « nécessitant une nette amélioration ».

ABSTRACT Grant implementation arrangements for Global Fund grants to Côte d’Ivoire were “partially effective,” the Office of the Inspector General said as a result of an audit conducted in 2016. The OIG rated supply chain controls and assurance mechanisms one rung lower, at “needing significant improvement.”

ABSTRACT Following approval by the Board in August of $180 million in funding for country grants, this article provides a summary of the comments made by the Grant Approvals Committee concerning grants to six countries: Bolivia (HIV), Central African Republic (TB-HIV), Côte d’Ivoire (HIV), Guatemala (HIV), Mali (HIV), and Zambia (HIV).

ABSTRACT On 15 April, the OIG released a report on its investigation into diversion of TB drugs financed by the Global Fund and sold in local markets in Côte d’Ivoire. The report said that a principal recipient and La Nouvelle Pharmacie, the entity in charge of warehousing and distributing the drugs, were the source of the diversion. Two million pills were sold illegally in local markets at a price that was double their initial value.

ABSTRACT Ten years of armed conflict and perpetual insecurity have driven HIV prevalence in Côte d'Ivoire higher -- especially among women in the western zone on the Liberian border. Many of these women were infected as a result of sexual violence perpetuated by one or another of the marauding armed groups that terrorized the region for over a decade; others were infected after turning to prostitution to escape extreme poverty. Since 2012, the Global Fund has supported activities in the west to reach these women.

ABSTRACT After more than 10 years of political instability and violent security crises, Côte d'Ivoire, supported in part by the Global Fund, is working to rebuild its battered supply chain, paying special attention to the once-restive west.

ABSTRACT Tight deadlines, a lack of local technical expertise and a funding shortfall to recruit external consultants: as the members of Côte d'Ivoire's country coordinating mechanism (CCM) are hailing the new funding model, they do so with no small trepidation and no shortage of questions still needing answers.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund is working in several countries in Africa, including Côte d’Ivoire, to support feeding programs in prisons for people infected with HIV and TB. But if the idea is simple, in practice it is substantially more complicated.