On 24 April 2020, the Global Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO) and a range of global health actors launched the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a global collaboration to speed up the development and production of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for all who need them globally. The other global health actors in the…
THE GLOBAL FUND’S LATEST SURVEY SHOWS WIDESPREAD DISRUPTIONS TO HIV, TB, AND MALARIA TREATMENT DUE TO COVID-19
A series of reports on the effects of COVID-19 on the health sector, mainly on HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria services, have been published in recent weeks. This article highlights these reports and the main findings: COVID-19 and HIV: A tale of two pandemics The International AIDS Society, which convenes the biennial International AIDS 2020 Conference, released a report, in…
THE 23RD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS 2020 CONFERENCE IS HELD VIRTUALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
The 23rd edition of the world’s largest conference on HIV, the International AIDS Conference, took place from 6 to 10 July 2020. The conference was initially scheduled to be held in San Francisco and Oakland in the United States of America. However, this time the biennial AIDS 2020 Conference took place virtually because of safety concerns related to the coronavirus disease 2019…
THE GLOBAL FUND RANKED HIGH IN THE 2020 AID TRANSPARENCY INDEX
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is ranked eighth, in the top category (“very good”), out of 47 world-leading aid and development finance organizations, according to the 2020 Aid Transparency Index. Publish What You Fund, a non-profit organization that campaigns for aid transparency and monitors the transparency of donor organizations, published its 2020 Aid Transparency Index on 23 June…
COVID-19 WATCH: GLOBAL DIVERGENCE
I have just finished reading Hilary Mantel’s latest (nearly 900-page) book, The Mirror and the Light, the last in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. It is set during the reign of Henry VIII; it opens with the execution of Anne Boleyn and ends with Cromwell’s own beheading in 1540. I am halfway through George Alagiah’s book, The Burning Land, ‘a gripping, pacey thriller…
GLOBAL FUND BOARD APPROVES EXTENSION OF THE WAMBO.ORG PILOT TO INCLUDE COVID-19 PRODUCTS
On 7 July 2020, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria, approved the Secretariat’s request to use wambo.org for non-Global Fund financed procurement of products related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Global Fund is already using the wambo.org platform to facilitate procurement of these products by Principal Recipients (PRs) using grant funds….
THE GLOBAL FUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS DESCRIBE THEIR WORK AND THEIR CHALLENGES
Technical assistants are a vital, although often invisible, part of the Global Fund grants, aiding at each step of the grant life cycle. They help write funding requests at the request of the Country Coordinating Mechanism and assist principal recipients (PRs) to determine financial and program targets during grant-making. During grant implementation, technical assistants assist PRs to address issues such as risk…
LE FONDS MONDIAL ET LES AUTRES ACTEURS MONDIAUX DOIVENT S’ASSURER QUE LES PAYS RESPECTENT LES DROITS HUMAINS DANS LEUR RÉPONSE À LA COVID-19
Samuel Muniu