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ABSTRACT This edition’s ‘Of Interest’ focuses on the 72nd World Health Assembly, WHO’s annual meeting for all Member States, held over the past nine days in Geneva, and an opinion piece in the WHO Bulletin from Médecins sans Frontières highlighting procurement problems associated with countries’ transition away from Global Fund support.

ABSTRACT Although raising more than ever before at $14.25 billion, the Global Fund Seventh Replenishment failed to meet its target, raising concerns over the limited resources that will be available for investment in national HIV, TB and malaria responses. In this article we analyze the declining trend in meeting the replenishment targets throughout the years and implications of this for the three diseases.

ABSTRACT A long-awaited and historic moment as the World Health Organization reinvigorates the fight against malaria by recommending a groundbreaking vaccine for children at risk of malaria. However, some practitioners recommend caution in its application.

ABSTRACT On 24 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) which is being conducted virtually over a seven-day period, due to finish on 1 June.

ABSTRACT Professor Alan Whiteside who, following the easing of lockdown is now back in Canada where he is employed by the Balsillie School of Internationala Affairs, muses on the new data and what it means for the world in general, and HIV in particular.

ABSTRACT With the roll-out of the COVAX Facility giving low-income countries access to COVID-19 vaccines, developing countries, particularly in Africa, face many financial, logistical and programming challenges in accessing the vaccine doses they require. This article outlines these challenges, as well as African countries' individual strategies and the collective ones adopted by the African Union to find solutions.

ABSTRACT Two reports published by the Global Fund and the World Health Organization detail the effects of COVID-19 on the fight against tuberculosis.

ABSTRACT On March 24, World TB Day, the World Health Organization released new consolidated guidelines on preventive treatment for tuberculosis, a day and an event largely eclipsed by COVID-19-related news. The new TB guidelines are designed to help countries accelerate their efforts to provide this treatment, in order to stop people who are carrying the TB bacteria from becoming sick with the disease. Activists note that the COVID-19 battle is – or should be – also a fight against the ongoing pandemics of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.

ABSTRACT GFO’s ‘Of Interest’ focuses on this year's World AIDS Day, which was themed “Communities make the difference”, celebrating the indispensable role that communities play at all levels of the HIV response.

ABSTRACT In a joint opinion piece, the heads of three of the world’s leading global agencies on AIDS, TB and malaria call for donor commitment to ‘get back on track’ in support of the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment. The writers recap the current state of the three diseases, the world’s successes against them, and the threats of epidemic resurgence, as context for the Global Fund’s aim to attract ‘at least’ $14 billion in funding.