GNI per capita

ABSTRACT The only really significant change to the Eligibility Policy adopted by the Board is that there are new metrics and thresholds used to determine TB disease burden. Income levels and disease burden are still the main determinants of whether a country and its components are eligible for funding. The Global Fund will continue to use gross national income per capita as the indicator of economic capacity.

ABSTRACT The Strategy Committee has been reviewing the current Eligibility Policy with a view to proposing a revised policy to the Board in May 2018. The committee prepared a paper for the Board meeting just completed in which it provided its current thinking on key provisions of the policy. The committee favors keeping GNI per capita to measure income. And it believes that emergency funding for ineligible countries (such as Venezuela) should be addressed outside the policy.

ABSTRACT A new report from ICASO and Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA describes an unprecedented, state-made, complex humanitarian emergency in Venezuela and calls on the Global Fund to lead a regional response. The report states that the delegations to the Global Fund Board from civil society and Latin American and the Caribbean have continued to press the Fund to find a way to channel resources to Venezuela, but have been met with roadblocks at every turn. This article includes a comment from Aidspan.