The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that immunization alone prevents approximately three million deaths worldwide along with access to safe drinking water, the public health measure that has the greatest impact in terms of reducing mortality. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the emerging SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two main avenues have been explored: antiviral treatments and vaccines. While the Solidarity clinical trial, set…
On 24 April 2020, the Global Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO) and a range of global health actors launched the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a global collaboration to speed up the development and production of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for all who need them globally. The other global health actors in the…
A series of reports on the effects of COVID-19 on the health sector, mainly on HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria services, have been published in recent weeks. This article highlights these reports and the main findings: COVID-19 and HIV: A tale of two pandemics The International AIDS Society, which convenes the biennial International AIDS 2020 Conference, released a report, in…
The 23rd edition of the world’s largest conference on HIV, the International AIDS Conference, took place from 6 to 10 July 2020. The conference was initially scheduled to be held in San Francisco and Oakland in the United States of America. However, this time the biennial AIDS 2020 Conference took place virtually because of safety concerns related to the coronavirus disease 2019…
I have just finished reading Hilary Mantel’s latest (nearly 900-page) book, The Mirror and the Light, the last in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. It is set during the reign of Henry VIII; it opens with the execution of Anne Boleyn and ends with Cromwell’s own beheading in 1540. I am halfway through George Alagiah’s book, The Burning Land, ‘a gripping, pacey thriller…
On 7 July 2020, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria, approved the Secretariat’s request to use wambo.org for non-Global Fund financed procurement of products related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Global Fund is already using the wambo.org platform to facilitate procurement of these products by Principal Recipients (PRs) using grant funds….
Technical assistants are a vital, although often invisible, part of the Global Fund grants, aiding at each step of the grant life cycle. They help write funding requests at the request of the Country Coordinating Mechanism and assist principal recipients (PRs) to determine financial and program targets during grant-making. During grant implementation, technical assistants assist PRs to address issues such as risk…
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