They are expected to follow up financing for the fight against malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis.

Effective roles and proper use of funds was in the spotlight recently in Douala. Necessitated by a recent disbursement of some FCFA 68 billion by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis for the purpose in Cameroon, a workshop to update the skills of the civil society delegation to the Country Coordination Mechanism Cameroon, CCM, and other actors and leaders of the civil society who are non-members of CCM, in Bonamoussadi.

The purpose was to enable participants to effectively play their role to support and follow up the use of funds. CCM Vice Chair, Fogue Foguito, revealed that the money will be used to offer free treatment for children less than five years old suffering from simple and complicated malaria and offer 12 million treated mosquito bed nets to pregnant women, among others. The objective, he said, is to cover at least 80 per cent of the population with the nets.

As concerns HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, Fogue Foguito said FCFA 98 billion was pending disbursement as the donor had asked for modifications to certain areas of the proposals, which CCM was already working on. He made the disclosure to the press in Douala as part of a five-day workshop organized by a local association, “Positive-Generation,” with the support of GIZ/Initiative Back Up, on “Understanding the mechanism of the Global Funds for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.”

The workshop also harped on the role and place of CCM members and the determinant place of accountability of members of the civil society delegation to the CCM. Fogue Foguito said the workshop was of great importance to Cameroon, regarding its relations with the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDs, Malaria and Tuberculosis. He described the press as an invaluable stakeholder in accomplishing the civil society’s triple mission of watching, advocacy and mobilization.