Question and Answers: Supporting Countries and Grants during the COVID-19 Pandemic Questions and Answers: COVID-19 Response Mechanism The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria has provided its implementing countries with two pathways to access resources to fight COVID-19. The first one is through flexibility of the existing grants and the second one is through the newly created COVID-19 Response…
The Technical Review Panel (TRP’s) has just completed its assessment of the funding requests submitted within the first window in March. It is sending notifications to the Secretariat’s country teams and the Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs). Due to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, the TRP worked remotely to assess funding requests. This article presents the TRP’s preliminary observations on window…
Countries in East Africa are among those with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world and with the highest numbers of HIV positive persons. Mobile populations, among them are truck drivers, play a significant role in the spread of both COVID-19 and HIV pandemics. The East African Community partners comprises six countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and…
Dr Benjamin Djoudalbaye, M.D., MSc, MPH is the Head of Policy, Health Diplomacy and Communication for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and also also acting Head of the Division of AIDS/TB and other Infectious Diseases at the Africa Union Commission. The CDC’s establishment by the African Union in December 2016 was triggered by the 2014 Ebola outbreak…
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…
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…
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…
Early March, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria recognized the threat that the novel coronavirus that causes the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) poses to the health systems of its beneficiary countries. The Global Fund issued a first guidance note allowing countries to redeploy underutilized assets, repurpose grant savings and, in exceptional cases, reprogram up to 5% funding from existing…
GIZ BACKUP Health is a global program, implemented on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which supports recipient countries in their partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GIZ BACKUP Health, the Global Fund, and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health organized a training session for five African countries that are…
Health workers in low income countries (LICs) find it difficult and often financially unrewarding, and are often taken for granted, when the national cake is being shared. The same may be said for teachers and other critical social sector workers who help to determine the foundations of social development and long term economic well-being. Our economics, however, seems to focus…
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