Pressure is mounting on Malawian authorities to end a bitter standoff threatening the country’s next Global Fund windfall, as a growing coalition of faith leaders and rights groups warn that thousands of lives could be at stake if the impasse drags on any longer. The Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected […]
A governance storm has erupted at the heart of Malawi’s Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) after six senior members accused officials of attempting to quietly overturn a landmark decision on who will control millions of dollars in Global Fund cash earmarked for the fight against HIV, TB and malaria. The explosive row centres on a Decisional […]
A group of civil society organisations has accused the Malawi Global Fund Coordinating Committee (MGFCC) of running an “irregular, unjust, and deliberately exclusionary” process to select a Community Principal Recipient for the Global Fund’s eighth grant cycle (GC8). In a joint statement, Allie Mwachande, executive director of MANERELA+, and Zinenani Lucy Majawa, of the Female […]
The Global Fund is injecting K400 billion to fight against deadly but neglected diseases in the country pushed into the shadows due to the ravaging Covid-19. This has been disclosed by the minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda when she opened a two day workshop for journalists on Global Fund operations at Sigelegele Beach Resort […]
When he picked his job as Laboratory Technician at Mzuzu Central Hospital few years ago, Ian Kambwani’s celebratory mood for picking the new job was short-lived. He realised that he had to work in risky conditions that exposed him to airborne diseases like tuberculosis (TB). The room he operated from did not have any scientific […]
Government has lamented that the tough conditions and requirements the Global Fund has set for civil society organisations (CSOs) to access its grants are very tough and a deterrent in the implementation of HIV and Aids interventions. The Director of Administration in the Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, McCallum Sibande, made the […]
The Executive Director of the Global Fund Peter Sands says he has confidence in Malawi Government on the use of funds aimed at fighting HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria given the progress made so far. Sands made the remarks on Friday in an interview in Yokohama, Japan, after he held a meeting with Vice-President Everton […]
National Civil Society Consultative Forum for Global Fund on Tuesday fired its chairman Lucky Mbewe accusing him of single handedly issuing a statement that withdrew a petition the grouping issued last week which accused Action Aid of being corrupt in the way how it is managing Global Fund resources. In a joint statement released on […]
Undule Mwakasungula, a veteran governance, human rights and social commentator, has advised civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country to help build Malawi on the basis of engagement and not confrontation. Mwakasungula said the CSOs, should not take every matter to international community or the media in confrontational matter but they should pursue “genuine national dialogue.” […]
Youth leaders from different districts in Malawi have demanded that the Global Fund Country Coordinating Committee (GF-CCM) should review the impact of the current arrangement for the management and implementation of programmes under the Global Fund. The recommendations were made in Lilongwe when the Youth and Women Representative in Global Fund Country Coordinating Committee in […]
Barely less than a week after some organisations under the banner of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) wrote the Global Fund asking it to withdraw the nomination of President Peter Mutharika over alleged bad domestic track record, another group calling itself Joint Civil Society Platform on Health has also wrote the fund, commending it for […]
Leader of civil society organization (CSOs) in the country have reacted angrily to president Peter Mutharika’s assertion that the CSO leadership has nothing to offer in the country, describing the Malawi leader as an embarrassment to the nation who is tarnishing the country’s image. Spokesperson for the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) Gift Trapence said […]
President Peter Mutharika has said he is saddened with some civil society organisations (CSOs) under the banner of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) for writing the Global Fund asking it to withdraw the nomination of the Malawi leader as Champion of its Sixth Replenishment Campaign. The CSOs argue that President Mutharika lacks the requisite moral […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika has been asked by the Global Fund to champion and lead next year’s conference in France to fight HIV and Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. Global Fund executive director Peter Sands said in a letter dated June 18 that the organisations has chosen President Mutharika because Malawi is thriving in the fight […]
Standard Bank has urged local partners of the Global Fund to adhere to financial discipline and transparency in the management of a U$460 million package the Global Fund has granted Malawi to fight HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Health Minister Atupele Muluzi and Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe officially signed the grant agreement with the Global Fund’s […]
The Grant Approvals Committee (GAC) of the Global Fund has endorsed a grant proposal for the country’s programmes on tuberculosis (TB), HIV and Aids and malaria running up to 2020. The Globe Fund has approved a grant US$460,475,140 for Malawi towards the fight against HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the period of 1st January 2018 […]
Standard Bank and the Global Fund has launched an expanded partnership which aims to provide better financial tools and skills to organisations implementing programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria in Malawi. The launch follows the signing of an MoU between the bank and the fund on April 20, 2016. The MoU lays out a […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale has said homosexuals will not be discriminated against when accessing healthcare despite the existing anti-gay law. Kaphale said this in defending government’s move to request $388 888 (about K221 million) from Global Fund for HIV and Aids interventions targeting 40 000 men who have sex with fellow men. Lesbians – […]