United States’ Senate approves Appropriations bill and 15.6% increase for Global Fund On September 18, the United States Senate Appropriations Committee posted its bill relating to funding for “state, foreign operations, and related programs” for fiscal year 2020. The bill proposes $1.56 billion in fiscal year 2020, which is a 15.6% increase from the previous year, and affirms the U.S.’s…
David Garmaise, a former Editor of the Global Fund Observer and still a regular contributor, has written hundreds of articles of news, analysis and commentary for the GFO, starting in 2005. Contributions by David to GFO may become more irregular in the near future as David is locked in a battle with liver cancer (his words) and is undergoing medical…
As the Global Fund approaches the replenishment of funds for the next implementation period, 2020 to 2022, some of its traditional major donors have already announced their pledges. The G7 countries – the world’s most advanced economies in the world including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States – are the Global Fund’s largest…
The Global Fund has requested the Democratic Republic of Congo to prove that the country has fulfilled its co-financing commitment, or in other words, that the State had spent about $44.6 million on health during the year 2018 as part of a commitment to spend about 98.9 million during this grant cycle, as agreed during grant signing; otherwise the DRC…
At this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in January, the most exclusive and possibly most hyped global private sector conference in the world, Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands issued a challenge to the private sector, to contribute at least $1 billion to the overall Sixth Replenishment target of at least $14 billion for the Global Fund’s…
Loyce Maturu is a GFAN Speaker, and one of the 18.9 million people currently being treated with antiretroviral therapy drugs through programs funded around the world by the Global Fund. Loyce lives in Zimbabwe and works with Africaid Zvandiri. Over the years, her role with the organization has shifted from being a beneficiary, to a peer counsellor, to now working…
GFO: Please tell our readers a bit about Emily Hughes? EH: I arrived in Geneva in late June to take on the role of the new CCM Hub Manager at the Global Fund. This chapter follows a great three years in Malawi where I served as the PEPFAR Coordinator along with my US government colleagues, working in partnership with the…
The Global Fund estimates that health programs supported by the Fund resulted in 32 million lives saved for the period ending December 2018. This figure was included in Results Report 2019, which the Fund released on 19 September 2019. The Results Report 2019 provides data for the year 2018. This is the second year of reporting using a revised methodology…
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