To be on track to meet the goal of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to end AIDS by 2030, more than 90% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) would know their status, 90% of those who had tested positive would be on treatment, and 90% of those on treatment would have achieved viral suppression, by 2020. However,…
In April 2020, the Global Fund, Frontline AIDS, and GIZ BACKUP Health – the three leading organizations in the fight against HIV/AIDS – partnered to publish a practical guide to implementing and scaling up programs to remove human rights-related barriers to HIV services. The Global Fund is a leading international financier of the response against HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria in…
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 set ambitious targets to transform and improve the lives of people by 2030. According to the 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Report, global progress to meet these ambitious goals was already off track at the end of 2019. Concerted efforts are required to set the…
Several Venezuelan civil society organizations (CSOs), former ministers of health, and academics wrote an open letter to the Global Fund to express their concern about the lack of participation of CSOs in the development of the country’s funding request to the Global Fund for the malaria grant. The letter, dated 20 June 2020, was addressed to the Global Fund Secretariat,…
Health workers play an important role in the health system and are in the frontline to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). They have been praised for their personal sacrifices and for putting their lives at risk at the forefront in the fight against a highly infectious disease. However, the impact of the increasing infection rate among health workers is…
The Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Strategic Initiative of the Global Fund, which is a $15 million catalytic investment, has bolstered the engagement of civil society and communities in in-country Global Fund processes across the three diseases. This is according to an independent external evaluation of the Strategic Initiative for the period between March 2017 and April 2020, which was commissioned by…
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is developing its post-2022 strategic plan. The Global Fund has requested input from partners, implementers, and other stakeholders to help identify emerging challenges and opportunities that will be critical for its next strategy. The Africa Constituency Bureau (ACB), which supports the representation of 46 African countries in their engagement with the…
My story starts with my time as a health worker in my African home country and continues as I rose in the ranks of several organizations as an international health development worker until my retirement from a relatively senior position as a resident representative with a United Nations (UN) agency. In my early career, I did not think of racism…
The Global Fund Secretariat and Nigeria’s Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) are at odds over the HIV/TB grant’s principal recipients (PRs) for the 2020-2022 cycle. The bone of contention is the Secretariat’s decision to downgrade the Society for Family Health (SFH), an indigenous civil society organization (CSO), to the role of sub-recipient of Family Health International (FHI 360), which will become…
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