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Despite intense and unanimous commitment to address sexual exploitation in the aid interventions, the last months have confronted the global community of aid and development with new proven cases and allegation of aid workers committing abuses and demanding sex acts and money in exchange for access to benefits

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has updated its codes of conduct to prohibit sexual abuse and exploitation after a report released last month detailed misconduct by a sub-subrecipient of a Global Fund grant.

The report also found that “The Global Fund’s governance policy framework in relation to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) is inadequate” and that it was operating “without a meaningful framework to prevent, prohibit, detect, or respond to SEAH in its programs.”

Nick Jackson, ethics officer at the Global Fund, told Devex that the fund has since updated its codes of conduct to explicitly prohibit sexual abuse and exploitation and that it is now working to connect its so-called country coordinating mechanisms with sexual abuse protection networks in the nations where it operates.

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