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 GLOBAL FUND ON TRACK TO ACHIEVE MOST OF ITS TARGETS FOR 2017–2019
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…
GLOBAL FUND BOARD DISCUSSES NEXT PHASE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABILITY, TRANSITION AND CO-FINANCING POLICY
The 42nd Global Fund Board meeting discussed the Sustainability, Transition, and Co-financing (STC) policy as part of the ‘pre-day’ agenda, in the form of an “interactive discussion”. This discussion reaffirmed the importance of this policy and its implementation. The STC policy aims to invest Global Fund monies better so that countries can maintain and scale up service coverage for the three diseases…