North Korean authorities and international financing organization the Global Fund this week agreed to start a previously-delayed grant for the treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a spokesperson for the group told NK News on Thursday.

The implementation of the grant — worth $41.7 million — has reportedly already begun, with the tuberculosis and malaria components to be run by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The MDR-TB component, in turn, will be implemented by the Eugene Bell Foundation, a U.S. NGO with extensive experiencein treating the illness in some of