January 2020 – Page 2

2020-01-15

NEW REPORT HIGHLIGHTS KEY TRANSITION AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES IN THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN RESPONSE TO THE THREE DISEASES

Transition and sustainability are critical issues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Global Fund-supported mechanisms in the region need to be better harmonized, concludes a new report, ‘Optimizing the Global Fund Resources’. The report was commissioned in March 2019, jointly by the LAC delegation to the Global Fund Board and the Horizontal Technical Cooperation Group (HTCG), a LAC initiative…

Editorial Team GFO 0 8 min read

2020-01-14

GLOBAL FUND ADDS FIVE COUNTRIES TO ITS 2020 ELIGIBILITY LIST

According to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria’s recently published Eligibility 2020 list, the list of countries and disease components currently eligible for Global Fund support, 131 countries are eligible to receive an allocation from the Global Fund during the 2020–2022 period. However, this eligibility does not automatically result in an allocation as countries still need to apply…

Editorial Team GFO 0 6 min read

2020-01-14

INCREASED DOMESTIC INVESTMENTS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT VITAL TO SUSTAINING HIV/AIDS RESPONSE, AFRICAN CONFERENCE HEARS

During the last decade, the world recorded substantial progress in the fight against the global HIV epidemic: AIDS-related deaths reduced by one third, and new HIV infections reduced by a 16%, between 2010 and 2018. However, dwindling financial resources available for HIV and a growing epidemic in some regions, such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia, threaten these gains, which…