There is increased recognition that removing human rights- and gender-related barriers to accessing HIV- and other health services by populations living with and affected by HIV, is a prerequisite for ending AIDS, reaching Universal Health Coverage, reducing inequalities, and achieving many other Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS notes that “urgent consideration should be given to the promotion,…
The United Nations has set a three-fold target (’90-90-90’) for the HIV response by 2020: 90% of people living with HIV are tested and aware of their status, 90% of those have entered care, of which 90% (73% of people living with HIV) have an undetectable viral load. Many African countries are trying to achieve these goals. A recent publication…
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in collaboration with the German development agency GIZ’s Back-up Initiative, and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), trained representatives of Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia in grant writing for Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH). To “Build Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health” is one of the Global Fund’s…
A workshop to prepare countries that are eligible for Global Fund malaria funding in the 2020-2022 funding cycle, their partners and consultants for the grant application process, was held from 10 to 12 December 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. This workshop came at a time when 43 countries were preparing to submit malaria funding requests to the Global Fund in the…
Ethics is a cornerstone of the Global Fund. The Fund’s creation was intrinsically an ethics-based decision writ large: the world’s answer to the ethical question of how to enable equitable access to life-prolonging care and treatment, for those living with the world’s three biggest killer infectious diseases, to those who previously did not have such access. But ethics for…
The Global Fund has committed to increasing investment in HIV prevention programming among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), following its third strategic objective, “Promote and protect human rights and gender equality.” Specifically, the Global Fund aims to reduce HIV incidence by 58% in 13 high-burden countries in eastern and southern Africa by 2022. An important element of this will be HIV…
Since its creation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has embraced four principles: partnership, country ownership, performance-based financing, and transparency. Ownership, as stated by the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, indicates that “countries set their own strategies”. The Global Fund’s definition of country ownership “means that people determine their own solutions to fighting these three diseases, and take full responsibility for…
On 23 December 2019, the Global Fund Board approved by electronic vote funding for interventions from the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand (UQD) valued at $18,449,708 for four grants in four countries. The funds come from $650 million approved by the Audit and Finance Committee for portfolio optimization, from the 2017-2019 allocations. The additional amounts will be integrated into four…
If Indonesia’s HIV- and TB-program targets are to be reached by 2020, the design of both programs needs improvement, the Office of the Inspector General said, emphasizing shortcomings in the HIV program in particular. This was the second OIG audit of Indonesia’s Global Fund grants since the Global Fund’s investments in the country began, in 2003. The OIG report, published…
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