Oliver Campbell White
GLOBAL FUND DECISIONS THREATEN CENTRAL MEDICAL PROCUREMENT AGENCIES
The role of national central procurement agencies National central procurement agencies for essential drugs fulfill a public service with a social purpose, in accordance with their national pharmaceutical policies. Those institutions, called CAMEG (La Centrale d’Achat des Médicaments Essentiels Génériques et des consommables médicaux) for Central Agencies for Essential and Generic Medicines, are autonomous government institutions that purchase quality medications, laboratory reagents…
GLOBAL FUND BOARD APPROVES EXTENSION OF THE WAMBO.ORG PILOT TO INCLUDE COVID-19 PRODUCTS
On 7 July 2020, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria, approved the Secretariat’s request to use wambo.org for non-Global Fund financed procurement of products related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Global Fund is already using the wambo.org platform to facilitate procurement of these products by Principal Recipients (PRs) using grant funds….
THE GLOBAL FUND’S 42ND BOARD MEETING CONFIRMS 2020-2022 ALLOCATIONS, COMMITTEE SELECTION PROCESSES, AND EXPANSION OF WAMBO.ORG
On 14-15 November 2019, the Global Fund Board held its 42nd meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. A ‘pre-day’ of information, discussion and interactive sessions was held on 13 November. Aidspan and the GFO/OFM were present, with observer status. The main decisions made at the meeting, in chronological order, are described below. (For precise wording of what the Board agreed, see the decision…
Audit du BIG sur la chaîne d’approvisionnement et d’achat du Fonds mondial pendant la pandémie de COVID-19
Oliver Campbell White