North Korea and TB; human rights and the Global Fund; drones and health delivery
ABSTRACT
In this “OF INTEREST” roundup, we highlight an article on how the TB problem in the DPRK is about to get worse; an article that describes how the Global Fund’s approach to human rights has evolved in the last 15 years; and an article about how, as a result of a public–private partnership, drones are being used to deliver blood products in Rwanda.
Global Fund terminates its grants to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
The Global Fund is closing its grants to the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea. The current TB and malaria grants will end on 30 June 2018. The DPRK’s new TB and malaria funding requests, which had made it into grant-making, will not proceed any further. The Secretariat said that it was not able to provide the Board with assurances concerning how its resources in the DPRK were being deployed and how effective the grants have been. There has been some negative reaction to the decision.
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