The Lancet
Nov 13, 2010  Volume 376  Number 9753  Pages 1617 – 1710
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

World Report
Defrauding of the Global Fund gives Sweden cold feet
Ann Danaiya Usher

Sweden has withheld its pledge to the Global Fund because of concerns about the misuse of US$25 million in grants in four African countries. Ann Danaiya Usher reports. At the third pledging round of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York, Sweden’s AIDS Ambassador Anders Nordström surprised the gathering by announcing that Sweden would not be making a pledge. The decision is a response to findings by the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General, which has identified cases of misappropriated grant money in Cameroon, Mauritania, Mali, and Zambia.