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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Ndimadabwa kuti Bizwik Mwale akuchoka ku NAC bwanji? Its jumping from the ship eti?
I read last week that doctors are advocating mandatory HIV testing in Malawi. Now if the Global Fund is beginning to get mean, where are we going to get funds for ARVs? Those doctors must have some interest in the data from the mandatory tests, otherwise I am still failing to comprehend their motive
koma umphawi ndi wovuta guys. kupempha uku. mmmmmhh!
But who will provide answers for Malawi?????? I think Malawi born problems will never and an never be solved by foreigners? A malawi, what r we doing?
Br Sedieie, What you have said is right but let us see this other side of coin.We are living on this poorest planet earth where there is a big gap between the well-to-do countries and poor countries like ours. God has done it with an aim behind. He wants to show the world that He is loving and caring God directly and indirectly from those rich countries’ or well-to-do foreigners’ assistance (financially,technically and materially)will be given to poor countries. THE WARM HEART OF AFRICA receives assistance form well-to-do foreigners or DONORS that means the HAND OF THE MOST HIGH has provided helpful answer for MW. We are doing well. What matters most is to target the targetted people or project for the donation. God will solve Malawi born problems through ourselves, well-to-do foreigners or donors. We are all one (Foreigners & Malawians) before God let us help one another in this and that way. God Woyee, Malawi woyeee!!! and Foreigners who help MW Woyee!!!
This is a bad development for our country, Malawi.
The Global Fund for AIDS has decided to renew funding to NAC when they saw Bizwick Mwale’s resignation letter. Wadya zambiri dotolo ameneyu.
1/4 System,please try your luck by applying for Bizwick’s post once it’s floated in the papers.Let’s see you with your large Tumbuka ego use a pool saloon vehicle which was procured as a mail utility. Let’s see how much you would salivate at the slightest glimpse of the billions of Kwachas that shall be at your disposal for disbursement to NAC implementing partners. Do you think you would last longer than Bizwick’s tenure of nine years considering your chronic ailment of nepotism? There’s a saying in Chichewa that goes: “Kaipa kali m’manja”. Dr. Mwale is leaving huge shoes to fill in at NAC. Scandal-free nine years at the helm of such a high pressure and tempting job is an achievement demanding respect and never never chipongwe.
Donors,pliz dont waste your money on malawian soils, its a country full of mad people, who dont know their destiny, asa!! a country without leadership, the entire president is lunatic, he is busy siphoning out government money for personal use.as of now, interms of anything, malawi is worse off than any other country in the world!!!! full of mad people!!!!