Eritrea

ABSTRACT Incremental funding of up to $46.4 million has been approved for the renewal of four grants in three countries. The largest amount of funding went to Eritrea for HIV and TB.

ABSTRACT Aidspan has obtained draft HIV and TB funding requests from six African countries classified by the Global Fund as challenging operating environments (Eritrea, Liberia, Guinea, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Somalia). Civil wars, famines and post-Ebola realities require flexible approaches in these countries. A number of innovative and adaptive interventions are prioritized to respond to the diseases in such difficult circumstances.

ABSTRACT The diagnostic review of Global Fund grants to Eritrea found that the country has used Global Fund resources to strengthen its national health systems but manifests some weaknesses such as a failure to define national standards.

ABSTRACT Kate Macintyre pays tribute to Dr Tewolde Gebremeskel, head of the National Malaria Control Program in Eritrea, who died recently.

ABSTRACT In the first week of August, the Office of the Inspector General released seven new reports covering audits conducted in Burundi, Malawi and Ukraine; and diagnostic reviews undertaken in Eritrea, Gambia, Georgia and Peru. The OIG found no evidence of grant funds having been misappropriated. In the audit of grants to Malawi, the OIG identified expenditures of $4 million that it deemed ineligible or unsupported. Malawi has already agreed to pay back at least $3.3 million.