{UAH} 2016 GLOBAL FUND GRANTS AUDIT-Uganda

2016 GLOBAL FUND GRANTS AUDIT - Uganda.

The audit says lack of credible management led to "pervasive stock-outs of key medicines, unexplained stock differences, funds that could not be accounted for, serious lapses in services to patients and poor grant oversight."

On March 4th, the new US Ambassador Mme. Deborah Malac had this emotional and blunt reaction:
"Truly dismayed to read the shocking details of the Global Fund audit of Uganda 's health management systems. It notes ineffective supply chain, theft of medicine and failure to spend millions of dollars in assistance on drugs. This report should be required reading for anyone who cares about Uganda's health systems."

As corruption seems to persist even on Global Fund grants which have already been at the center of a national corruption scandal previously, and as Uganda's image is hereby tarnished internationally, the country should increase political will to support health professionals and the health sector. Plus behave more responsibly with its own destiny by stopping to take laced international aid that subtly maintains an independent country under unclear foreign patronism.

In the future, before we accept any aid funds, we might want to ask what exactly is the donors national interest when they provide certain grants to us? Then we can assess if that ulterior interest is also in our interest or not

Hussein Lumumba Amin.
Kampala, Uganda.
07/03/2016

Here is the must-read Global Fund Audit summary: theglobalfund.org/en/oig/updates/2016-02-26_Audit_of_Global_Fund_Grants_in_Uganda/

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