Says funds taken from other services to cover cost of centres PR and CCM dispute the findings The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) says that 1,291 new health centres were constructed as part of the Rounds 4 and 7 HIV grants in Ethiopia, even though this activity was not part of the approved workplan and budget. The OIG also…

“The Fund should consider abandoning the use of income status as an eligibility criterion”   Authors call for an approach based on disease burden and financial need Ten years after its formation, the Global Fund is now entering a phase that will require it to allocate its funds more carefully and strategically. It can only do so by addressing the…

Following a “perfect storm” of fiduciary, financial and managerial problems which plunged the Global Fund into a crisis, the organisation is now undergoing a process of transformation. Both the crisis and the decision to embark on transformation are significant and surprising given that until quite recently, the Fund was generally acclaimed as a grand success.   This article argues that a…

Official reason cited was that the time period for signing a grant had expired The Global Fund has rescinded its approval of a Round 10 TB grant from the Russian Federation. The official reason advanced by the Fund was that the period allotted for negotiations of the grant agreement had expired with no agreement having been signed. However, the real…