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total number of drug detention centers receiving GF support to 65 (over half the total
number in Vietnam). 286
In his correspondence the GF executive director stated, “We strongly reinforce our view
that detention centers for drug users and sex workers do not provide effective treatment
and rehabilitation and we do not support their use.” 287 He continued:
It is our view, however, that depriving detainees from accessing life-saving
treatments and the means to protect themselves from HIV and other
preventable conditions is inhuman. Until these centers are closed, the
Global Fund will not exclude funding effective, evidence-based HIV
prevention and AIDS treatment in the centers if detainees are otherwise
unable to access these services. 288
In the same correspondence, the executive director outlined a recent process of limiting GF
funding to the Vietnamese government to a more restricted range of services in drug
detention centers than previously funded.
In September 2010, the Global Fund took action to ensure that all activities
implemented with funds disbursed under our grants in Viet Nam are
compliant with human rights laws, norms and obligations and standards….
First, we reprogrammed existing grants in Viet Nam in late September 2010
such that they focus only on support, treatment and prevention of HIV and TB
in detention centers. Second, at the signing of the Round 9 grants in early
2011, we committed to undertake a thorough review of activities conducted
with grant funds in Vietnamese detention centers after six months’
implementation of the Round 9 grants. Finally, in early May 2011, we initiated
a broad consultative process that will result in a further reprogramming of
Global Fund grants in Viet Nam aimed at disallowing all peripheral activities
in detention centers.
286 Vietnam’s Country Coordinating Mechanism, “Proposal Form, Round 10,” 2010. Country Coordinating
Mechanisms (CCMs) include representatives from governments, multilateral or bilateral agencies, non-governmental
organizations, academic institutions, private businesses and people affected by the diseases (HIV, TB and malaria)
that the Global Fund focuses on. Country Coordinating Mechanisms develop proposals to The Global Fund and
oversee implementation of Global Fund grants. The Ministry of Labor is represented on Vietnam’s CCM.
287 Letter from Michel Kazatchkine, executive director, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,
to Human Rights Watch, June 11, 2011.
288 Ibid.
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