The United Nations has set a three-fold target (’90-90-90’) for the HIV response by 2020: 90% of people living with HIV are tested and aware of their status, 90% of those have entered care, of which 90% (73% of people living with HIV) have an undetectable viral load. Many African countries are trying to achieve these goals. A recent publication…

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in collaboration with the German development agency GIZ’s Back-up Initiative, and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), trained representatives of Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia in grant writing for Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH).   To “Build Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health”  is one of the Global Fund’s…

Ethics is a cornerstone of the Global Fund. The Fund’s creation was intrinsically an ethics-based decision writ large: the world’s answer to the ethical question of how to enable equitable access to life-prolonging care and treatment, for those living with the world’s three biggest killer infectious diseases, to those who previously did not have such access.   But ethics for…

The Global Fund has committed to increasing investment in HIV prevention programming among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), following its third strategic objective, “Promote and protect human rights and gender equality.” Specifically, the Global Fund aims to reduce HIV incidence by 58% in 13 high-burden countries in eastern and southern Africa by 2022. An important element of this will be HIV…

Since its creation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has embraced four principles: partnership, country ownership, performance-based financing, and transparency. Ownership, as stated by the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, indicates that “countries set their own strategies”. The Global Fund’s definition of country ownership “means that people determine their own solutions to fighting these three diseases, and take full responsibility for…