This article reports on the main points made by four of the panellists at the session on 26 July on “The Global Fund: The Next 5 Years” at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC: Gabriel Jaramillo, General Manager, Global Fund; Eric Goosby, US AIDS Ambassador;Ā Kamal Siregar, Member, National AIDS Commission, Indonesia; and Hendrietta Ipeleng Bogopane-Zulu,Ā Deputy Minister of Women, Children…
FRENCH AMBASSADOR LAYS OUT HER ROADMAP FOR THE GLOBAL FUND
Editor’s Note: In the session on “The Global Fund: The Next 5 Years” at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. on 26 July, Mireille Guigaz,Ā Ambassador of France for the Fight Against HIV and Communicable Diseases, and representative of France on the Global Fund Board, described what she saw as the opportunities, challenges and risks for the Fund. This text…
CIVIL SOCIETY IS BEING LEFT OUT OF CRITICAL DECISIONS, CS SPOKESPERSON SAYS
Specific concerns spelled out To achieve maximum impact, the Global Fund needs the full engagement of civil society (CS). However, CS has not been meaningfully involved in the critical decisions currently being taken by the Fund. This was the view expressed by Nadia Rafif, one of the panellists at the session on “The Global Fund: The Next 5 Years” on…
DON’T COMPROMISE YOUR PRINCIPLES IN THE NEW FUNDING MODEL, GLOBAL FUND TOLD
Activists disrupt session at AIDS 2012 on the future of the Global Fund Jaramillo signs pledge to oppose the use of funding caps The Global Fund’s new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from individual countries. This was the message delivered by a group of activists on 26 July at a session on…