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Global Fund Observer 184
1. NEWS: The Global Fund Turns the Tap Back On
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2. NEWS: Main Decisions Made at Board Meeting
3. NEWS: Secretariat Re-Organisation Was Hindered by Weak Performance Management System, Jaramillo Says
4. NEWS: Global Fund Launches Process to Select New ED
5. NEWS: How Grants Will Be Managed in the Restructured Secretariat
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Make Every Day Mother's Day
By Michel Sidibé: This Mother's Day, I am asking everyone to help bring future families more joy and less anxiety. There are three simple things we can all do to ensure babies everywhere can be born free from HIV. Together we can go from 390,000 children becoming infected with HIV each year to zero.
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Global Fund to Resume New Health Grants
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has boosted its coffers and will resume funding new grants following the launch of a management overhaul prompted by a slowdown in donations and past disclosures of some misused grant money.
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Global Fund News Flash: Issue 01
In this issue:
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- Available Funding
- Transformation in 90 Days
- Monitoring & Evaluation System Country Profile Tool
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Global Fund forecasts $1.6 billion in available funds for 2012-2014
A new financial forecast by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that more than $1.6 billion in additional funding will be available in the 2012-14 period for investment in projects that save lives. The new forecast is a result of strategic decisions made by the Board, freeing up funds that can be invested in countries where there is the most pressing demand, and adopting a plan to transform the Global Fund that has created multiple positive effects, including improved financial supervision and overall efficiency.
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Global Fund Observer 183
1. NEWS: Global Fund Forecasts $1.6 Billion in “Additional Funding” for New Grants
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2. NEWS: Global Fund Vows to Stay Committed to Civil Society Involvement After Restructuring
3. COMMENTARY: New Structure at Global Fund Will Reduce Influence of Civil Society
4. NEWS: OIG Releases Audit Report on 10 Grants in Ethiopia -
How Does HIV/AIDS Funding Affect a Country’s Health System?
By Victoria Fan, Amanda Glassman and Rachel Silverman:
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Recently, the American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene published a paper by Shepard et al. evaluating the impact of HIV/AIDS funding on Rwanda’s health system. The headline of the press release was catchy and assertive: “Six-year Study in Rwanda Finds Influx of HIV/AIDS Funding Does Not Undermine Health Care Services for Other Diseases. Study Addresses Long-standing Debate about Funding Imbalances for Global Diseases.” -
Global Fund Observer 182
1. NEWS: OIG Releases Four New Reports
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2. NEWS: Sixty-One Applications Received for TFM Funding, Representing Demand of $616 Million
3. COMMENTARY: Error-Filled Media Stories Are Another Risk the Global Fund Needs to Manage
4. NEWS: Global Fund Releases More Information on the Renewals Process
5. NEWS: France Will Use a Portion of Its Global Fund Contribution to Provide Technical Assistance
6. NEWS: CCMs Are Not Taking Full Advantage of Funding Opportunities from the Global Fund
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Is The Global Fund Getting Better?
By Victoria Fan: Amidst tough times, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is rapidly transforming for the better. After negative, if not slightly hysterical, press from cases of fraudulent spending (that the Global Fund itself discovered and reported in 2010), compounded by doubts among certain bilateral donors on the sustainability and efficiency of the Global Fund, the newly appointed temporary General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo and his team has moved forward to “transform” the Global Fund with considerable speed and deftness.
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A Q&A with US global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby
Goosby discusses the revelation that the US has accumulated nearly $1.5 billion in unspent funds intended to go to HIV/AIDS programs around the world.
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Malaria: Fighting for a Better Future
On World Malaria Day, Mediaplanet released an 8-page specialist report within The Independent newspaper, to showcase what the world is doing to fight malaria.
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A Critical Moment for Reversing Spread of Malaria
by Tony Blair: The real point is that malaria was eradicated in the USA and UK because people realized that it was utterly preventable and set about preventing it with adequate resources to hand. And there are no reasons it cannot be eradicated in Africa and other endemic malarial areas too.
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Global Fund Observer 181
1. NEWS: At a UK Parliamentary Hearing on the Global Fund, Aidspan Provides a Recipe for Change
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2. NEWS: Aidspan Welcomes New Executive Director
3. NEWS: Global Fund Board Appoints Independent Members to its Audit and Ethics Committee
4. NEWS: Global Fund Urged to Re-Affirm Commitment to Aid Effectiveness and HSS
5. NEWS: Global Fund's No-Go Decisions for Grant Renewals Are on the Rise
6. NEWS: In Some Countries, International Fiduciary Agents Are Supporting PRs
7. NEWS: Half of the Countries with Global Fund-Supported TB Programmes Deliver Services in Prisons, But Scope Is Limited -
UK Development Minister praises reforms at Global Fund
The United Kingdom’s International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, told a parliamentary hearing that the speed and effectiveness of reforms underway at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are on target.
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Violence and belief in magic raise risk of HIV for women
High levels of sexual violence and a cultural belief in witchcraft are putting an increasing number of women at risk of HIV in Papua New Guinea, health experts say.
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Pacific Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a high-level advocacy organisation which seeks to mobilise regional awareness of the serious threat posed by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to societies and economies in the Pacific. In pursuing its goals Pacific Friends has a specific interest in highlighting the need to protect the rights of women and children in the Pacific.
In February 2009, Pacific Friends was launched under the auspices of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to join the group of Friends of the Global Fund organisations. Pacific Friends also raises support for the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the vital role it plays in resourcing effective country-based plans to reduce the impact and spread of the three pandemics.
Following generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to join the group of Friends of the Global Fund organisations, Pacific Friends has established itself under the auspices of the University of New South Wales. Through its advocacy Pacific Friends also raises support for the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the vital role it plays in resourcing effective country-based plans to reduce the impact and spread of the three pandemics.
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