Matthew Black
Global Fund Examines its Long Term Future
Bernard Rivers
Aidspan Website Adds Graphical Representation of Grant Delays
The website of Aidspan, the NGO that publishes GFO, now provides a graphical record of changes over time in the extent to which various groups of Global Fund grants are ahead of or behind schedule. The graphs can be reached by clicking on “Graphs” near the top of www.aidspan.org/grants/totals. One of the graphs is reproduced below. (If it is not…
Head of PEPFAR Chosen as Chair of Key Global Fund Committee
The Global Fund board has chosen Ambassador Randall Tobias, head of PEPFAR, the $15 billion US bilateral AIDS program, to serve as Chair of the Global Fund’s key Policy and Strategy Committee. The resolution to approve Tobias, which came despite complaints by activist NGOs and a critical editorial in the New York Times, nearly failed to pass as a result…
US Withdraws Requirement That Affected Global Fund Grant Recipients
After receiving protests from some US NGOs and queries from the media, Ambassador Randall Tobias, head of the US’s bilateral AIDS program PEPFAR, withdrew a newly-published US requirement which stated that non-governmental recipients of Global Fund grants “must have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution.” The requirement was the latest in a steadily escalating set of conditions placed upon recipients of…
Round 4 is Biggest Ever
Bernard Rivers
Global Fund Secretariat is Reorganized
Bernard Rivers
Pointed Lessons from a Regrettable Row
Bernard Rivers