Global Fund denies reports of huge malaria drug thefts

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Source: BBC

A global health organisation has denied reports that hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of donated malaria drugs may have been stolen in recent years.

In the paper, leaked to the Associated Press, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria said about $2.5m ($1.5m) in drugs had been stolen since 2009.

But spokesman Jon Liden told the BBC the scale of the problem was "nowhere near" as high as other figures alleged.

Mr Liden said the fund treated all thefts extremely seriously.

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