Folks,

There is urgent need for UN and the World to do inspection and investigation where all these International Donor Funding to Kenya dissapear to, because it does not reach the intended program, yet Kenyans have been swindled of their rights in a criminal way and are heavily taxed for the same.

Serious Human Rights Violation is a serious offense punishable by the International Courts. Please people, help Kenyans out of this mess. There must be an end to this.

Thanks,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

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CARTELS MUST REMOVE INTEREST IN AIDS FUNDS

Sunday, March 22, 2009 6:43 AM
From: “ONYANGO Clinton”

CARTELS MUST REMOVE INTERESTS IN AIDS FUNDS

The latest news that Kenya has been granted over ten billion shillings and that some of the funds were wired recently by the Global Fund is good news for the country. In the background of the great news, the Kenyan public was seriously concerned about stories appearing in the media in November that the country would lose such critical funds earmarked for the Aids campaign due to delayed reporting and poor accounting by the Ministry of Health and the National Aids Council.

While the good news is product of lobbying conducted by civil society organizations who publicized the delay of the reporting in the media while lobbying Geneva to be considerate to Kenya, the delay of the funds is evidence for incompetence, lethargy, inefficiency and rot in the civil service that needs urgent overhaul. The executive director of Global Fund is extremely displeased with Kenya ’s performance and has told Kenya to shape up. Shamelessly, Kenya was ranked the fourth position among the worst performing countries funded by Global Fund last year. War torn countries like congo , Somali and Sudan were even ranked better than Kenya .

Tragically however, it has become clear that even before Global Fund has disbursed the funds, the sharks of corruption have started to wet their appetites with sophisticated methods of looting from the sick and orphans.

In the last six months, many AIDS intervention projects implemented by the Civil Society Organizations have collapsed leaving untold sufferings among widows, orphans and many HIV infected who were left without care and support provided by the projects funded.

Thousands of people living with HIV have been left without anti-retroviral therapies thereby exposing them to drug résistance and therefore new infections and even premature deaths as result of the withdrawn medical care.

The Ministry of Health continues to spend millions with newspaper advertisements to correct negative publicity, different surveys continue to confirm that there is serious drug stock out in government health facilities throughout the country. Health Initiative Africa ( HAI) Oxfam and Ketaam indeed have a campaign to demonstrate the seriousness of the problem. This campaign is informed by operational research and no denial through press adverts by the Health ministries will hoodwink the public that there is crisis. Most public health facilities only store painkillers and condoms while Kenyans continue to die from preventable diseases. The tragedy of the scenario is that drugs meant for public hospitals are finding themselves in private pharmacies. One needs to visit public hospitals and homes in the country side to comprehend the magnitude of the heath crisis and see the helplessness of community Kenyans faced with hunger and health problems without any financial resources or any sense of hope. The recent claims that HIV tests in the country are showing conflicting results need to be investigated and allegations cleared.

One of the factors that motivated Global Fund to release the funds to Kenya despite the poor performance by the government in the previous phases was the serious harm the withdrawal of funding would impact on the problem of Aids, tuberculosis and malaria in Kenya whose funding is donor dependent. All the gains made in fighting the wars would be lost. In Kenya however, the Global Fund has been a case of confusion, frustrations and disappointments. Key government officials and politicians have had vested interests in the fund and the meager funds that are made available to communities are not even enough to address the enormous problem of AIDS prevention, care and support in the country.

While it becomes easy to blame some civil society organizations for corruption and delayed reporting, the actual clutter and confusion is committed by government agencies such as Kemsa , Nascop,and the AID Council. AIDS Council officials are known to register conduit organizations to defraud the donors.

Indeed, if Geneva finds out that the government agencies plan to short change the Global Round Seven grant implementers who need to scale up their programmes for greater results , then Kenya might as well forget any future funding opportunities by the Global Fund and other donor agencies including the World Bank.

It is however important that Kenya devises a way of fighting HIV/AIDS such as national budgetary allocations to address donor dependency that seems to cause more harm than good .

Dr Clinton Onyango

P.O BOX 23
Kendu Bay
KENYA

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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:14:30 -0700 [07:14:30 AM CDT]
From: jbatec@yahoo.com
Subject: CARTELS MUST REMOVE INTEREST IN AIDS FUNDS TO KENYA