The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has suspended contracts with two international firms that supplied mosquito bednets over "serious financial wrongdoing" in Cambodia.
Recently, Dr. Mark Dybul, the newly appointed executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, wrote an impassioned plea in The Huffington Post, underscoring the urgency of funding disease prevention and treatment programs throughout the world.
It appears that the Affordable Medicines Facility - Malaria (AMFm) is being scuttled by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The AMFm is a multimillion-dollar programme to get effective drugs - artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) - to remote rural villages, where local stores are often the main providers of medicines.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (often called The Global Fund or GFATM), established in 2002, is an international financing organization that has financed three fourths of the funding for global anti-malaria activities. Particularly in Vietnam, the Vietnam Global Fund Malaria Project (VGFMalaria) Round 3 (2005-2008) had been implemeted at 23 severely-hit provinces of malaria