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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.
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ABSTRACT Results from Phase 1 of the multi-donor Joint Learning Agenda on Health Financing and Universal Health Coverage were presented at a recent webinar. This innovative capacity building program is aimed at civil society in ten Anglophone and ten Francophone countries and aims to build community capacity to advocate for greater domestic resources allocations for health. The need to empower communities to advocate strongly for bigger health budgets will be even more important in this Seventh Replenishme
RÉSUMÉ Le présent article, le quatrième d’une série, met en lumière les réussites, les défis et les leçons de l’Éthiopie dans le cadre de sa demande de financement de lutte contre la COVID-19 au titre du dispositif de riposte du Fonds mondial, ainsi que de la mise en œuvre des fonds accordés. L’Éthiopie a reçu 39,9 millions de dollars du Fonds mondial pour la première phase du dispositif C19RM, en 2020, et recevra plus de 100 millions de dollars au cours de la deuxième phase, qui a débuté en juillet 2021. L’Éthiopie et les autres pays bénéficiaires du Fonds mondial doivent mettre à profit les enseignements de la phase 1 afin de garantir la réussite de la phase 2.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved $57.9 million in funding for portfolio optimization, following recommendations from the Secretariat's Grant Approvals Committee to the Board, to finance interventions listed on the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand. The additional funds will address challenges related to Algeria's HIV program transitioning out of Global Fund support, will back Ethiopia's initiative to roll out an updated national TB policy, will support Ghana’s procurement of long-lasting insecticidal nets for 2021 mass distribution, will bolster TB case detection and diagnosis in Nigeria, and will support procurement of the new multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Uzbekistan.
ABSTRACT The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) is the government body authorized to procure and distribute Global Fund-supported health commodities. KEMSA obtains competitive prices compared to the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism, stock-outs of health commodities happen rarely, and orders are delivered on time. This article shows how – in some cases – a country’s independent procurement, if well managed, can work as well as the Fund’s pooled procurement.
ABSTRACT In a 'proactive' investigation, the Office of the Inspector General uncovered some deficiencies in the Global Fund’s processes for procuring HIV rapid diagnostic test kits, between 2014 and early 2017, in eight countries including Georgia, South Africa and Uzbekistan. The focus of the investigation was on the Global Fund's quality assurance processes, not the Principal Recipients.
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.
ABSTRACT We describe, In brief, a new debt swap donation from Spain; the latest PEPFAR results; sales in 2017 by Apple’s (RED) products; the World Malaria Report 2017; delays in the $9.5 billion USAID global health supply chain project; and an expansion of the Global Gag Rule.
ABSTRACT An audit conducted by the Office of the Inspector General reveals solid progress in implementing HIV, TB, malaria and HSS grants to Ethiopia – but also inefficiencies in grant management, absorption, quality of services, and procurement and the supply chain. The audit covered the period from July 2015 to March 2017.
