The morning pledging session of the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference in Lyon, France, on October 10, saw representation from 68 countries, including several new donors to the Global Fund, as well as ‘symbolic’ pledges from many implementing countries as a show of their commitment to and appreciation of the Global Fund. The pledging portion of the morning’s events was…
Will the private sector step up (enough) for the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment?
At this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in January, the most exclusive and possibly most hyped global private sector conference in the world, Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands issued a challenge to the private sector, to contribute at least $1 billion to the overall Sixth Replenishment target of at least $14 billion for the Global Fund’s…