Asia

ABSTRACT The Asia Pacific report, released by Aidspan, provides an overview of the history and current status of Global Fund support in the region and summarizes the main cross-cutting issues facing the region. It also includes profiles of select countries identified as priority countries based on their burdens of disease and country contexts.

ABSTRACT After the recent Partnership Forum in Bangkok, the second in the series of consultations to support the development of the Global Fund’s new strategy, Anna Maalsen reflects on how the principles of community leadership and country ownership that are at the heart of the Fund’s culture actually translate on the ground.

RÉSUMÉ Plus de 120 personnes se sont réunies les 23-24 juin à Bangkok pour le forum de partenariat Asie-Pacifique : le deuxième du genre organisé par le Fonds mondial afin de faire entendre les voix de la société civile et élaborer la stratégie de développement pour la période 2017-2021.

RÉSUMÉ Un changement radical dans la prévention, le diagnostic et la gestion des cas de tuberculose est nécessaire pour remplir les objectifs à l’échelle mondiale, affirment les participants d’une consultation tenue le 23 juin et organisée par le Partenariat Stop TB.

ABSTRACT At the Asia-Pacific partnership forum, civil society and community-based stakeholders emphasized the need for stronger community interventions and a bigger voice for implementers in the new Global Fund strategy. Assurances from the representatives of the Secretariat that their voices were being heard, however, were met with some skepticism.

ABSTRACT A radical change is needed in the global strategy to prevent, and manage, tuberculosis if new targets are to be met, participants in an Asia-Pacific consultation session said.

ABSTRACT A new UNAIDS report warns that progress in curbing HIV infections in Asia is at risk of stalling without better targeting of prevention programs to key populations.

ABSTRACT Malaria patients in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia will pay significantly less for artemisinin-based combination therapies purchased through the private health care system, as a result of agreements between the Global Fund and six manufacturers of malaria drugs.

ABSTRACT Chevron Corporation has become the Global Fund's first “Corporate Champion,” donating US$30 million over three years to support programmes financed by the Fund in parts of Asia and Africa.