Malaria money sits idle
Millions of dollars of aid money granted to Cambodia by the Global Fund to combat malaria have been left sitting in a bank account for more than a year, official documents seen by the Post show.
The money remains untouched because the National Malaria Centre (CNM) is refusing to sign a funding agreement for a $12 million Global Fund grant it could have accessed since July because it objects to a request to provide detailed accounts of the spending, a source close to the Global Fund in Cambodia said, a move that could potentially put thousands of lives at risk.
The source said that the CNM had spent virtually none of a separate $9 million grant it has been entitled to use since August 2014, which was awarded as part of an urgent initiative to combat drug-resistant malaria in the Mekong region, a claim backed up by documentation. …
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malaria-money-sits-idle-0
