PartnersGF - 2005-03-16
Global Fund Grants Vs Numbers on Treatment(1)
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[Mods Note: Michel Takam of Cameroon has written the following in response to Richard Sterns posting yesterday detailing Global Fund expenditure against ARV access for people living with HIV for thirteen countries. To see Richards posting, please click here: http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/messages?id=4599. Further comments welcome.]
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Dear Richard,
Thank you for the data. I think that it a good initiative. We, as civil society have the responsibility to follow and evaluate the process of the Global Fund because we are involved and will have to answer to history. This needs a good organization and some good training [among civil society members] so that we should have the same approach. The job that your organisation [Agua Buena Organization, Costa Rica] has been doing for some years is appreciated.
We all should have the facility to access this kind of information for all our countries.
The only comment that I can give at this stage of implementation is that effort should be made world wide in order to have some balance between the funds invested and the number of people that receive treatment.
In my country, [Cameroon], we are still looking for the effective result in term of numbers of treated persons and the proportion of people living with HIV/AIDS. The [Global Fund] project is considered by many like a means to distribute money and beautiful cars for some high situated people.
So let us figure how to tackle the problem.
Michel Takam
Cameroon
mtakam2000@yahoo.fr