By Chioma,
The Global Funds to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Wednesday dis-missed any fraud in the fund it made available for managing HIV treatment and prevention activities in the country.
The Global Fund Portfolio Manager for Nigeria, Dr Drean-Thomas Nouboussi, clarified while responding to media enquiries regarding allegations of fraud and mis-appropriation of HIV funds management in Nigeria,
The clarifications sanctioned by Dr. Nouboussi and made available by Christy Feig, Head of Communications Department, External Relations and Communications, Global Fund headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, said what was insinuated as fraud was mere audit review; and not an investigative report that can establish fraud or mis-appropriation or any other problems.
According to Global Fund, there is a lot of difference between an audit review, which is periodically carried out to examine the design and adequacy of internal control mechanisms and risk management processes, and an investigation, which is usually a more comprehensive study of all the records to examine whether fraud or misappropriation has taken place.
While stressing that Global Fund’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has several tools to ensure Global Fund investments have the most impact possible, Feig clarified that “there was no fraud or misappropriation of Global Fund funds identified in the review.”
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