Malawi assured of funding for Aids programme after appeal
The visiting Global Fund for Aids Executive Director Michael Kazatchikine on Thursday assured Malawi of possible funding despite the rejection of the country’s funding proposal recently.
He told journalists in Lilongwe that the country needed to appeal to the funders, using the same proposal and application they sent for funding consideration.
Global Fund Panel of Experts rejected proposals from Malawi and Kenya for 2009 to 2012 and considered among other countries China in the recent round of their funding for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
“Malawi should resubmit the same application and proposal in a form of appeal to the Global Fund so that it can be considered (again) for the funding,” he said.
Kazatchkine also said he was dissappointed to see Malawi out of the recent funding after a record of tremendous strides in the fight against the pandemic and other related diseases.
He said Malawi was one of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which had extremely successful stories in both the fight and prevention of HIV/Aids.
He therefore bemoaned that it was a mere technical problem during the review of the proposals by a Panel of Independent Group of Judges to leave the country out of the grant.
Officials from National Aids Commission (NAC) said the rejection partly due to the fact that Malawi did not explicitly cite homosexuality and prostitution as major areas of interventions.
Instead, they country used the term multiple and concurrent partners and culture, youth as areas to tackle.
Meanwhile, NAC Executive Director Bizwick Mwale (pictured) has abdicated from his position reportedly to take up a new job at the United Nations as its HIV/Aids envoy in Lesotho. –APA
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