Global Fund freezes Zambia aid over corruption concern
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
More than $300m (£200m) of health funding to Zambia to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being suspended.
The Global Fund said it was concerned about alleged corruption in connection with one or more grants to the health ministry and that its warnings to the government to get its house in order have been ignored. The Fund would continue paying for life-saving treatments.
It is not the first time Zambia has lost aid amid corruption claims: Sweden and the Netherlands stopped health aid and the EU halted road-building funds.