Following are three introductory summaries of recent developments related to AIDS, TB and malaria, and the Global Fund. Links to original sources of the news follow each item. WHO Global TB Report 2019 The latest global TB report from WHO gives both encouraging and sobering news about the epidemic. It states that 58 million lives were saved between 2000 and…
Behind the Global Fund’s particularly utilitarian definition of CCMs (“Country Coordinating Mechanism”) lies a very complex reality. Indeed, the CCM concept is a radical shift from the traditional “donor/beneficiary” relationship. The anthropological concept of a “gift” provides insight into the origins of the unresolved tensions that generally exist between donor and recipient (Henkel and Stirrat, 1997). The Global Fund is…
Donors at the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference pledged $14 billion for the next three years – the largest amount ever raised for a multilateral health organization. By all standards, our fundraising outcome in Lyon was a very impressive achievement, and testimony to the strength of the Global Fund partnership and the hope it brings to communities around the world….
Donors at the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference pledged $14 billion for the next three years – the largest amount ever raised for a multilateral health organization. By all standards, our fundraising outcome in Lyon was a very impressive achievement, and testimony to the strength of the Global Fund partnership and the hope it brings to communities around the world….
It is said, and it is often repeated, that the Global Fund is a unique model of a partnership that brings together the public sector, technical and financial partners, the private sector and representatives of civil society, in a single effort to eliminate pandemics. This diversity is reflected in the Global Fund’s Board of Directors, which has one seat for…
The morning pledging session of the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference in Lyon, France, on October 10, saw representation from 68 countries, including several new donors to the Global Fund, as well as ‘symbolic’ pledges from many implementing countries as a show of their commitment to and appreciation of the Global Fund. The pledging portion of the morning’s events was…
. Editor’s Note: On 30 July 2019, in edition 361, the Global Fund Observer published an article on fiscal agents’ role in reducing financial risks in Global Fund grants (‘Fiscal agents reduce financial risks within Global Fund grants but do not build implementer capacity’), by Djesika Amendah, a senior member of Aidspan’s policy team. The article explained the role of…
The Implementer Voting Group (ImG) of ten constituencies of the Global Fund Board met for its annual retreat in Dakar, Senegal, from September 11 to 13. The objectives of the ImG’s 2019 retreat included to identify the related priorities, strategies and positions of the ImG in relation to Global Fund Board decisions, and to strengthen action to advance country ownership…
In Zambia, one of the countries hardest hit by HIV/AIDS and where the disease is still the leading cause of death, the Churches’ Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) has been an implementer of Global Fund grants, without interruption, since their inception in 2003. The performance of CHAZ’s grants is mostly better than that of the other Principal Recipient (PR), the…
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