The Secretariat provided the Board with a recap of actions taken by the Global Fund, as of 8 May 2020 in three main areas: protect the Secretariat staff while continuing to work; protect the Global Fund “Core Mission” to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria; and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Information for this article comes from a document prepared for…
The Board approved the timeline and some changes to the process of development of its new strategy to take the COVID-19 impact on the world into account. The Board will approve the strategy in November 2021. The strategy development process will include collecting input virtually, which is being done for the first time. The partnership forums, which are in-person meetings…
Mouhamadou Diagne (MD), the Inspector General of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, is leaving his position to become the Vice-President of Integrity at the World Bank, according to a statement released by the World Bank on 1 May 2020. MD, as he is often referred to, has led the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) since March 2015….
The sixth annual report to the Board on the Global Fund Secretariat’s work to promote community-, rights- and gender- (CRG-) based responses to HIV, TB and malaria has been caught between two chairs: the long-running attempt to keep CRG-based as well as community and civil-society engagements at the center of Global Fund grants’ programming, with the tsunami of the COVID-19 pandemic…
The Global Fund’s Inspector General Mouhamadou Diagne, in his 2019 annual report to the Global Fund Board, commended the Global Fund’s significant impact in accelerating the end of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG’s) work in 2019 established that the Global Fund investments have helped decrease mortality and infection rates across the three diseases….
In keeping with tradition, Peter Sands opened discussions at this 43rd meeting of the Global Fund Board. Held virtually with a lighter agenda, this meeting was above all an opportunity to look back at the unprecedented global health crisis the world is currently facing and how the Global Fund has responded to prevent the very serious effects anticipated. The Executive…
On 14-15 May 2020, the Global Fund Board held its 43rd meeting virtually, via video conference, over two afternoon sessions. These sessions, combined, were much shorter than previous Board meetings, which were usually held over two days, after a full ‘pre-day’ during which selected topics were discussed in a less formal setting. The final agenda for the meeting added two…
The Global Fund reported slow progress in the implementation of agreed management actions (AMAs).It reported a rise in the number of open and overdue AMAs as of March 2020, according to a joint progress report by the Global Fund Secretariat and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This rise follows an all-time low number of open and overdue AMAs in…
The Global Fund is on track to achieve most of its 2017–2019 key performance indicators (KPIs), according to the end-2019 Strategic Performance Report presented to the Board on 14-15 May. The organization is expected to meet its target to save 29 million lives. However, the rate of decline in new infections is not fast enough for the Global Fund to…
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