The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 set ambitious targets to transform and improve the lives of people by 2030. According to the 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Report, global progress to meet these ambitious goals was already off track at the end of 2019. Concerted efforts are required to set the…
Viviana Mangiaterra, Head of Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health at the Global Fund since 2014, spent most of her career working in the field of maternal and child health services at the WHO and later at the World Bank. Hired to conceptualize the Global Fund’s commitment to health system strengthening, she designed the tools and framework that underpin the…
“We want to make a promise to you. Not a promise we can keep today, but a promise you can count on when you turn 18.” Thus begins the ‘open letter’ from the Global Fund – signed by a large number of high-profile artists and athletes – to 7-year-olds everywhere, who will be 18 in 2030, the target date of…
With a High-Level Meeting on universal health coverage (UHC) scheduled for 23 September 2019, the day before the United Nations General Assembly begins, the United Nations could intensify the global movement toward a health-systems approach offering comprehensive basic coverage that is funded by domestic governments. A transition to UHC would have significant implications for the Global Fund. The meeting is…
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