Bernard Rivers
Financial Developments
Bernard Rivers
Press Coverage of the Fund
Bernard Rivers
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…
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…
THE PARIS MEETING AND BEYOND
Bernard Rivers
Feachem testifies about CCMs
On 7 May 2003, Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Fund, testified in WashingtonDC before the US House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. Much of what he said came in the form of unscripted answers to questions from the Chair, Representative Jim Kolbe. Following are some excerpts from what Dr. Feachem said. On CCMs: Today, 50% of the members…
Full Support for Global Fund Is Critical in AIDS Fight
Joanne Carter