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ABSTRACT Russia is transitioning from recipient to donor of Global Fund grants, prompting concerns from civil society about potential gaps in service delivery, specifically related to prevention and harm reduction activities.
ABSTRACT This article examines two challenges that arose during the development of Zimbabwe’s funding request: (1) There was not much room to maneuver with respect to the program interventions that were included in the request; and (2) A group of donors criticized the process for developing the funding request and the outcome.
ABSTRACT The world has made progress in the fight against the HIV epidemic during the last decade. However, this progress is under threat as a result of dwindling financial resources and a growing epidemic in some regions. Recent global statistics of the HIV epidemic show that the world is unlikely to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. However, discussions at the 20th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa underscored the need for countries to build on the achievements so far by raising more HIV resources domestically, stepping up HIV prevention efforts, and putting the communities at the centre of the response.
ABSTRACT Representatives from ten countries involved in a $10-million Global Fund regional malaria initiative across Mesoamerica and Hispaniola met to evolve national strategies away from control and towards elimination.
ABSTRACT Global Fund grants to Guinea, which are managed under the Additional Safeguard Policy, face numerous challenges. The Global Fund Board has approved an HIV grant with a new principal recipient, the Ministry of Health. The grant complements a TB/HIV grant approved in December 2017.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund finances HIV grants in 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. All but one of the grants focus on key populations. A report by the Pan American Health Organization and UNAIDS says that the region is too dependent on external financing. It also says that there is a need for detailed plans to transition away from this dependency.
ABSTRACT The Grant Approvals Committee says it is very concerned that ambitious treatment goals in national programs are often not reflected in grant performance frameworks because of limitations in the allocations. The committee raised this issue in its report to the Board on the third batch of grant approvals for 2017-2019. The GAC called for urgent inter-agency discussions and it said that donor governments should be included in the talks.
RÉSUMÉ Le Comité d’approbation des subventions se dit très inquiet de ce que les objectifs de traitement ambitieux des programmes nationaux ne se retrouvent souvent pas dans les cadres de résultats des subventions en raison des limites des allocations. Il soulève cette question dans son rapport au Conseil d’administration sur le troisième lot d’approbations de subventions pour 2017/2019. Le Comité appelle à la tenue urgente de discussions interinstitutions, auxquelles les gouvernements donateurs devraient selon lui participer.
ABSTRACT In what local activists are hailing as a “very important step in ensuring the sustainability of HIV services in Macedonia," the newly elected government has ordered the Ministry of Health to budget a considerable amount of money to provide antiretrovirals for people living with HIV as well as prevention services to key affected populations such as men who have sex with men, persons who inject drugs, and sex workers.
RÉSUMÉ Dans les demandes de financement présentées au Fonds mondial durant les première et deuxième périodes, plus de 100 millions de dollars sont proposés à destination des adolescentes et des jeunes femmes. À l’issue d’une analyse de huit pays, le Fonds mondial a indiqué que la priorité est accordée aux questions de genre et de violence sexiste dans sept des huit pays, tandis qu’aucun pays n’a jusqu’ici privilégié la prophylaxie post-exposition ni la protection sociale. Le Comité technique d’examen des propositions exhorte les pays à adopter des démarches fondées sur des faits probants et à planifier des évaluations simples.
