The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a global health partnership that pools resources from donor countries, foundations, private organizations, and philanthropists to support developing countries to address HIV, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics, whilst strengthening their health systems for optimum impact and sustainability. Presently, over 100 countries are receiving support from the Global Fund. Nigeria has been…
COUNTRIES SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXIT FROM THE GLOBAL FUND ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARD POLICY
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria gives grants to more than 100 countries. The Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), which comprises representatives of State, civil society, key populations, and other stakeholders usually select Principal Recipients (PRs) to administer these grants. The PRs are implementers, and are generally state institutions like the Ministry of Health or non-state actors like non-governmental…
GLOBAL FUND GRANTS IN ANGOLA ARE “PERFORMING POORLY,” OIG SAYS
In this second audit of Global Fund grants in Angola, the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General found that the country’s grants are performing poorly. New infection rates and mortality rates increased for HIV, TB, and malaria compared to the regional average, and even to the country’s own rates in 2012. The OIG audit opinion was that domestic financing, community…
Advancing country ownership is central theme of implementers’ meeting in Dakar
From September 11 to 13, the Global Fund Implementer Voting Group (ImG) will hold a retreat in Dakar, Senegal, with the central theme of ‘Advancing country ownership and political will’. This will be the implementers’ group’s third such retreat, beginning in 2017. In 2016, the ImG developed its first ‘Roadmap’, which prioritized work areas around strengthening the implementer group, sustainability…
Global Fund announces country allocations under NFM
Lauren Gelfand
The Evolution of “Country Ownership” at the Global Fund
David Garmaise
GLOBAL FUND BOARD APPROVES DESIGN OF NEW FUNDING MODEL
David Garmaise and Kate Macintyre
Meaningful change or more of the same rhetoric? The Global Fund’s new funding model and the politics of HIV scale-up
Kapilashrami, A. and Hanefeld, J.