Global Fund Suspends Payments To Nigeria’s AIDS Agency After Investigation Finds Evidence Of Fraud, Collusion

Associated Press: Global Fund: $3.8 million fraud, stops aid to Nigeria agency
“The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has suspended payments to Nigeria’s AIDS agency over evidence that $3.8 million was stolen by its workers and consultants, the Geneva-based agency said Friday. Fund spokesman Seth Faison said Nigeria’s government has promised to repay the money and to prosecute suspects…” (5/6).

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