According to the national coordinator Richard, Gavi and Global Fund monies are sent to each and every district to service activities of people living with HIV/AIDS and its sad to note that the funds are not put to use and then at the end of every financial year they are sent back to the consolidated fund leaving the communities suffering at the
expense of a few negligent civil servants.

However officials from the Finance Ministry are attributing the factors to lack of convincing plans to which these monies are to be used for coupled with fear to misuse them thus the reason for sending them back to the consolidated fund.

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Women Human Rights Grants: The Global Fund for Women supports women’s groups that advance the human rights of women and girls.

Women Human Rights Grants support and strengthen women’s right groups based outside the United States by providing small, flexible, and timely grants ranging from $500 to $20,000 for operating and program expenses.

Global Fund for Women values local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.

Who the Global Fund supports

• Groups of women working together.
• Organizations that demonstrate a clear commitment to women’s
• equality and women’s human rights.
• Organizations that are governed and directed by women.
• Organizations based outside of the United States.

Who the Global Fund does NOT support

• Individuals and Scholarships
• Organizations that do not have a women’s human rights focus.
• Organizations headed or managed by men.
• Organizations whose sole activities are income-generation and/or charity.
• Organizations based or working primarily in the United States.
• Organizations in the Global North proposing partnerships in the Global South.
• Government entities, political parties or election campaigns.

Contacts: Global Fund for Women, 1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, 94109, USA. Phone: (CA 415) 202-7640. Fax: (415) 202-8604. Email: ssafrica[at]globalfundforwomen.org

More information see; Women Human Rights Grants

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Global Fund for Women Grants: The Global Fund for Women supports women’s groups that advance the human rights of women and girls by strengthening women’s right groups.

Global Fund provide small, flexible, and timely grants ranging from $500 to $20,000.

The Global Fund for Women offers three types of grants:

1. General Support Grants – Flexible grants that cover general operating and project expenses.

2. Travel and Event Grants – Grants that support members of an organization to attend conferences and events.

3. Organizing Meeting/Event Grants – Grants to support organizations in planning a time-sensitive conference or event.

Global Fund for Women value local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.

The Global Fund supports:

• Groups of women working together.
• Organizations that demonstrate a clear commitment to women’s equality and women’s human rights.
• Organizations that are governed and directed by women.
• Organizations based outside of the United States.

Global Fund does NOT support:

• Individuals and Scholarships
• Organizations that do not have a women’s human rights focus.
• Organizations headed or managed by men.
• Organizations whose sole activities are income-generation and/or charity.
• Organizations based or working primarily in the United States.
• Organizations in the Global North proposing partnerships in the Global South.
• Government entities, political parties or election campaigns.

Global Fund is committed to providing support to women’s groups throughout the world in a fair, just way and accept grant proposals in any language and any format.

The applications are accepted throughout the year and grants awarded every three months.

Completed applications can be sent to: ssafrica[at]globalfundforwomen.org or Global Fund for Women: 1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400. San Francisco, CA 94109. USA. Tel: (415) 202-7640. Fax: (415) 202-8604.

For more information, visit: Global Fund for Women

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Uganda is experiencing TB drugs but the National Resistance Movement government is planning to import the TB drugs in September. Today is March 15, 2012. We don’t know whether TB patients will not have died by September. Currently most hospitals in Uganda have run out of drugs.

The minister for Health, Christine Ondoa has told a press conference in Kampala this morning that the Government has earmarked 4 billion shillings to procure TB drugs starting with the month of September.

Ondoa says that the government is planning to distribute the drugs once imported to both private and government aided health centers across the country. TB is still one of the major causes of death in Uganda and Africa in general. Uganda registers, according to the ministry of health 330 per 1000 patients who report at the hospitals.

Uganda also experiences inadequate supply of fluorescent microscopes used in laboratories. The few microscopes the country has were procured a few years back by Global Fund grants.

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