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…
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