national strategic plan

ABSTRACT Africa’s health and finance ministers met in Ethiopia to develop strategies to boost national health spending, ahead of a global push for meaningful efforts for better domestic financing for health across the developing world tied to the Global Fund’s replenishment meeting in Washington in December.

ABSTRACT Africa’s health and finance ministers met in Ethiopia to develop strategies to boost national health spending, ahead of a global push for meaningful efforts for better domestic financing for health across the developing world tied to the Global Fund’s replenishment meeting in Washington in December.

ABSTRACT New minimum standards for implementers adopted by the Global Fund apply to principal recipients, large sub-recipients, public- or private-sector entities involved in the pharmaceutical and health products procurement and supply chain, and components of the national health system. The minimum standards will apply to early applicants under the new funding model.

ABSTRACT African governments have not lived up to their commitment in the Abuja Declaration to allocate 15% of their annual budgets to health expenditure, according to a report by the Global Fund.

ABSTRACT Wave 2 of the NSA funding channel will probably involve joint assessments of national disease strategies rather than just assessment by the Global Fund.

ABSTRACT At last week's Board meeting, decisions were made on national strategy applications, the proposed joint health systems funding platform, additional funding for strongly-performing grants, TRP terms of reference, salaries for the most senior employees, quality assurance for antimalarial medicines, Round 10, and more.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved two of the nine Round 9 proposals whose original rejection had been appealed by the applicants. The newly approved proposals are an HIV proposal from Pakistan and a TB proposal from Ukraine. The appeals of two rejected National Strategy Applications from Kenya and Malawi were turned down.