Democratic Republic of Congo

ABSTRACT Results from Phase 1 of the multi-donor Joint Learning Agenda on Health Financing and Universal Health Coverage were presented at a recent webinar. This innovative capacity building program is aimed at civil society in ten Anglophone and ten Francophone countries and aims to build community capacity to advocate for greater domestic resources allocations for health. The need to empower communities to advocate strongly for bigger health budgets will be even more important in this Seventh Replenishme

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 Democratic Republic of Congo has to prove that the country has fulfilled its co-financing commitment, the Global Fund says. Otherwise, the country risks losing up to $80 million in grant funding, representing 15% of the value of its grants. DRC is currently facing an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 2000 people in the last 12 months.

ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General has found that between 2015 and 2017, the Global Fund’s malaria grant in the DRC was subject to “systemic manipulation of procurement and supply-chain related expenses” through collusion and deliberate schemes to overprice, designed by senior managers appointed by Population Services International, the Principal Recipient. The cumulative losses of more $7,386,066 have since been repaid to the Global Fund in full.

ABSTRACT In the latest batch of funding approvals from the Global Fund Board, three country grants and two multicountry grants were awarded $36 million. The Board also approved funding in the amount of $66 million for interventions on the Unfunded Quality Demand Register. Some of the funding for the UQD interventions came from private sector contributions.

ABSTRACT The Grant Approvals Committee says there is a risk that the Democratic Republic of Congo will not be able to meet its 2017-2019 co-financing requirements. Nevertheless, the GAC recommended approval of three HIV and three malaria grants to the DRC. To mitigate the risk, the Secretariat will step up its monitoring of the DRC’s progress towards meeting its co-financing commitment. The GAC also expressed concern about a gap in the DRC’s funding for mass distribution of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets.