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Donors React to Health Minister's Claim
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The group of 15 foreign donors who finance the Mozambican health service through the PROSAUDE programme on Thursday undertook to honour in full their promises of support, and even to increase their funding of health care, according to a report in Friday's issue of the independent newsheet "Mediafax". The group was reacting to accusations made on Monday by Health Minister Ivo Garrido. Speaking at the opening of a meeting of the Health Ministry's Coordinating Council, Garrido claimed that in 2007 donors did not disburse the promised funds on time, thus causing delays in a large number of programmes.



But, according to Neil Squires, counsellor for health in the Maputo office of the British Department for International Development (DFID), last year 14 of the 15 PROSAUDE partners disbursed "everything they had promised", and some even disbursed more than planned, thanks to the rise of the Euro and other currencies against the US dollar. The problem arises with the 15th partner, the Global Fund to Fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and AIDS. The group of donors said this was because the Health Ministry "failed to reach, as planned, some of the conditions laid down by the Global Fund".



Nonetheless, the donors stressed that all efforts are being made to ensure that this year all the money from the Global Fund will be disbursed on time. Squires added that a joint memorandum of understanding between the government and the donors is being concluded, which should guarantee a continual increase in funding, will remove conditionalities, and ensure that future funds are disbursed in good time.

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