Indoor residual spraying

ABSTRACT Despite facing substantial economic challenges, Zambia has successfully scaled up interventions across all three diseases, concluded an audit of Global Fund conducted by the Office of the Inspector General. However, issues concerning the capacity of health workers and the capacity of diagnostic systems have negatively impacted service delivery, the OIG found, and there have been delays in implementing program activities. Finally, Zambia’s health systems operating with obsolete infrastructures struggle to cope with the rapid increase of volumes caused by program scale-up.

ABSTRACT Programs supported by The Global Fund added another 641,000 people on antiretroviral treatment in the last half of 2015, bringing cumulative results to 9.2 million. During that same period, the number of smear-positive TB cases detected and treated increased by 357,000 (cumulative total: 15.1 million); and the number of mosquito nets distributed rose by 59 million (cumulative total: 659 million).

ABSTRACT Programs supported by The Global Fund added another 500,000 people on antiretroviral treatment in the first half of 2015, bringing cumulative results to 8.6 million. During that same period, the number of smear-positive TB cases detected and treated increased by 850,000 (cumulative total: 15 million); and the number of mosquito nets distributed rose by 50 million (cumulative total: 600 million).

ABSTRACT Used a revised methodology, the Global Fund estimates that through programs it supports, 17 million lives have been saved. This is almost double the figure of 8.7 million lives saved announced by the Fund in July 2012.

ABSTRACT Wycliffe Muga asks "Why is the indoor spraying of DDT not listed prominently on the 'Fighting Malaria' webpage of the Global Fund's website? Is it because neither the Fund nor its grant implementers are enthusiastic about the benefits of this approach?"