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The US Global AIDS Plan

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria is under attack. A report from the Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General shows that 0.3% of funding may have been mismanaged. But opponents of the Global Fund have actively distorted this report to prove their baseless belief that the Global Fund is corrupt. They even got the Associated Press to publish their version of the story in hundreds of papers around the world.

We need to fight back against biased media reports that say the Global Fund is corrupt. Use the form below to send a letter to the editor to your local paper, and help us get the real story out.

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  • Of the $13 billion dispersed to 145 countries the Fund has uncovered $34 million of fraud in 4 countries—about 0.3%.

  • Transparency should be lauded not punished! The Global Fund has a history of publishing audit information online. Neither the U.S. government nor any global institution matches this level of uncensored, full, public transparency.

  • Global Fund grants are tracked by an independent agency which is backed up by an independent IG, with a former top U.S. federal prosecutor leading its investigations. By hiring top talent to lead a strong team of investigators, the Global Fund has uprooted misspent money that would, in most other institutions have gone unnoticed, unpunished, and certainly not publicly announced

  • The Global Fund has already recovered $19m of the $34m misappropriated. This is a better track record than most and sets a new paradigm for accountability in global development.

  • Theft of Global Fund money has been (and is being) prosecuted and high level officials have been jailed. In Uganda, Mali, Mauritania, and Zambia dozens have been arrested and imprisoned for corruption; the President of Mali personally intervened. These rare prosecutions illustrate the Fund’s commitment.

  • By comparison, the Pentagon has $13 billion in unsupported payments in Iraq; MEDICAL FRAUD: $4 billion charged to U.S. government. Any system with large finances is likely to face fraud. The Defense Contract Audit Agency uncovered $13 billion in fraud, going on unstopped for years—half from company KBR which continued to get contracts despite findings. Senators Snowe & McCaskill sent a letter to Defense Secretary gates asking him to do more to recover over $100 million in fraud. Meanwhile, the Justice & HHS Departments announced on January 24th that they had recovered over $4 billion in fraud last year. New regulations actually implement policies in the U.S. that have long been practice for the Global Fund, such as halting disbursements in cases of suspected fraud.

  • It is clear that not all cases of improper bookkeeping indicate money was in fact pocketed. In some cases Global Fund experts have suggested that expenditures “without supporting documentation” although wrong, may actually be a case of “inadvertently failing to obtain/retain/provide documentation for an expenditure that genuinely happened and was justified. These weak systems are, in fact, exactly what the Global Fund was designed to help address.”

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