David Garmaise died on April 19 after a long struggle with cancer. Over the previous fifteen years, David was the author of about a thousand articles in the Global Fund Observer, and multiple Aidspan Guides and Reports. Born in Canada in 1948, David left his job as a government official in 1996 to work full-time on HIV/AIDS issues. A few…
In 2012, as I took over from Bernard Rivers as Aidspan’s ED, Bernard told me he had a “secret weapon” – it was David Garmaise. It is so sad that David has been so ill and now died, but he was my secret weapon too. A phenomenal analyst, critic, editor and writer, David also worked fast. His time from idea…
My professional relationship with David Garmaise dates back more than ten years. I first met him while I was serving on Aidspan’s Board of Directors. But it was only years later, when I started my tenure as Aidspan’s Executive Director, that I got the opportunity to work closely with him. His knowledge enabled him to mentor all of us –…
My first contact with David, apart from having read hundreds of his meticulously reported articles in the Global Fund Observer during my almost-decade at the Global Fund, was when he, along with Aidspan CEO Ida Hakizinka, contracted me as Acting Editor of the GFO in June 2018. David had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had had emergency surgery to…
Christelle Boulanger
With a global shortage of medical commodities needed for COVID-19, such as test kits, reagents, and personal protective equipment for health-care and other essential workers, the news that WHO has listed the first two diagnostic tests for emergency use during the COVID-19 pandemic is a welcome step towards enabling countries that are struggling to get their hands on testing-related items,…
GIZ BACKUP Health is a global program, implemented on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which supports recipient countries in their partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GIZ BACKUP Health, the Global Fund, and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health organized a training session for five African countries that are…
On the day that the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. surpassed 600,000, President Donald Trump announced that he would suspend funding to the World Health Organization, alleging that it had severely mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic, and accusing it of a “cover-up”. President Trump said the WHO, which is leading the global response to the pandemic, had…
Health workers in low income countries (LICs) find it difficult and often financially unrewarding, and are often taken for granted, when the national cake is being shared. The same may be said for teachers and other critical social sector workers who help to determine the foundations of social development and long term economic well-being. Our economics, however, seems to focus…
South Africa instituted a 21-day national ‘lockdown’ on 26 March 2020, when the country had fewer than 100 reported cases of COVID-19. After 14 days President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the lockdown for a further two weeks, until the end of April. At the time of publication, South Africa had reported 2,415 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 27 deaths. The Daily…
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