At its October 2002 meeting, the board decided that if a medicinal product is to be eligible for purchase using Global Fund grants, it must meet various requirements. One of these is that if it is a “single- or limited-source product,” it must (a) have been found to be acceptable by the WHO-initiated UN Pilot Procurement Quality and Sourcing Project,…
Committee Restructuring
Bernard Rivers
Phase 2 Grants
Bernard Rivers
Funding of CCM Secretariats
Bernard Rivers
CCM Authority over PRs
Bernard Rivers
New Chair and Vice-Chair
Bernard Rivers
Global Fund Board Completes Tenth Board Meeting
This issue of GFO is devoted almost entirely to decisions made at the Global Fund board meeting that took place in Geneva on April 21-22. The Fund holds three board meetings per year. This was the tenth such meeting. GFO was present, with observer status. The meeting continued the constructive and cooperative tone that has been the pattern for some…
Board Decisions Regarding Governance
Bernard Rivers
Global Fund Approves Fourth Round of Grants
Bernard Rivers
The Press Release Announcing the Pricing Agreement
[The following press release was issued on 6 April 2004 by the William J. Clinton Foundation, The Global Fund, UNICEF, and The World Bank.] 6 April 2004 New Agreements Aim to Make Lowest-Priced AIDS Drugs and Diagnostics Available to Hundreds of Thousands of Patients Throughout the Developing World Global Fund, World Bank and UNICEF join with the Clinton Foundation to…