100 millions USD. This is the amount of money spent by the Center For Health Policies and Studies within the projects financed by the external partners. The invested amount of money converted to the national currency is equivalent with almost 2 bln. lei. The biggest investment was offered by the Global Fund in order to implement 9 projects to fight TB and HIV/AIDS.
Only in the last 10 years the Center For Health Policies and Studies managed by Viorel Soltan and officially declared as a non-governmental and non-profit institution, obtained funds worth more that 90 mln. $ for the implementation of projects to fight tuberculosis and HIV / AIDS. The goal of the Center For Health Policies and Studies programs presented on the official site is to reduce the morbidity, mortality and the impact of these diseases on people who suffer of them, to assure the involvement of the civil society and to promote the patients rights, to reduce the pressure imposed by tuberculosis in Moldova and to fortify the healthcare system in the fight with those 2 diseases.
But the results were not noticed
Probably, the fault consists in the lack of efficient management of money offered for noble purposes. For instance, recently in a meeting the head of the non-profit Center For Health Policies and Studies, Viorel Soltan, has proposed 1 mln. $ that is 20 mln. lei to the Ministry of Health for the elaboration of a document on the tuberculosis prevention and combating. Did the Global Fund ask what happen with the money offered to this organization? What kind of documents cost 1 mln. $? continuă lectura