RI obtains US$ 55 million grant from global fund
Antara News, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 21:51 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Global Fund has once again provided Indonesia with a grant of US$55 million for its AIDS prevention program.
"In the first phase, the Fund will provide 55 million US dollars to be e given to three main recipients, namely the Ministry of Health, the National AIDS Commission (KPA) and the nation`s biggest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)," Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said here on Wednesday.
She said the grant would be provided in installments for two periods, namely 2010-2012 and 2012-2015.
Of the grant`s total amount , about 39 million US dollars would be managed by the Ministry of Health, 18 million US dollars by the National AIDS Commission (KPA) and about 2 million US dollars by NU.
The grant would primarily be used to tackle three infectious diseases, namely AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
Indonesia was again given the grant because it was considered successful in preventing these diseases in recent years.
Global Fund Executive Director Professor Michel Kazatchkine said Indonesia had been very successful in the use of previous grant funds. The Global Fund had witnessed Indonesia`s success in fighting the three diseases over the past eight to ten years.
Since 2002, the Global Fund has disbursed 630 million US dollars in grants to Indonesia to combat the three diseases.
The minister said of the total of amount of grants received from the Global Fund as much as 115 million US dollars were used for prevention of AIDS, 113 million US dollars for tuberculosis and 185 million US dollars for malaria.
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