COVID 19

ABSTRACT Alan Whiteside on three years post-pandemic lockdowns and why the global public health architecture is not ‘fit for purpose.

RÉSUMÉ La crise Covid marque l’avènement d’une nouvelle façon de penser et de gérer les questions de santé. Raisonner à l’échelle de la planète, appréhender les problèmes sanitaires dans leur dimension globale, chercher des solutions collectives et coordonnées au niveau mondial : c’est que ce l’on appelle la « santé mondiale ». Cette nouvelle approche n’est pas sans poser de questions éthiques et nous oblige à interroger les fondements de nos mécanismes actuels de gouvernance. Stéphanie Tchombiano s’interroge sur les grands principes éthiques d’humanité, d’autonomie, de justice, d’égalité, de non-malfaisance, de transparence ou encore de démocratie dans la gouvernance de la santé mondiale de demain

ABSTRACT The African Union Commission and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are concerned about the application of the European Union’s Digital COVID Certificate or ‘Green Pass’ to different COVID-19 vaccines. The availability of such a Certificate, with its potential to significantly facilitate free safe movement across all EU Member States and certain associated countries, is a significant step forward. However, the current applicability guidelines put at risk the equitable treatment of persons having received their vaccines in countries profiting from the COVAX facility, and this has repercussions for the majority of the African Union Member States.

ABSTRACT The OIG has published its report on its audit of Global Fund emergency preparedness. It explains how, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Fund Secretariat instituted measures to ensure business continuity at the corporate level and in the implementation of its grants at the country level. Establishing an effective crisis response structure, agile decision-making, good coordination and collaboration, effective engagement with stakeholders, and the consistent availability of information technology services were the measures that worked well during the crisis and should be sustained for future response to other crises.

RÉSUMÉ La première véritable étude de l'impact du COVID-19 sur les jeunes et de son impact sur leur bien-être sexuel et reproductif, y compris en ce qui concerne le VIH. Si nous savons que les jeunes ont souffert, nous manquions jusqu'à présent de données. Cette étude de cas nationale fait partie d'une étude portant sur six pays et permettra de faire la lumière sur le coût non chiffré de cette pandémie. Elle mérite d'être suivie de près.

ABSTRACT The first proper study of the impact of COVID-19 on young people and its impact on their sexual and reproductive wellbeing, including with regard to HIV. While we know that young people have suffered, until now we have lacked the data. This country case study is part of a six-country study and will shed light on the uncounted cost of this pandemic. It is worth keeping an eye out for.

ABSTRACT The African Journal of AIDS Research is publishing a special issue on ‘AIDS in the time of COVID-19’ to coincide with the International AIDS Conference 2022 (AIDS 2022) being held in Montreal.

ABSTRACT Jorge Saavedra, a member of the Developing Country NGO Constituency on the Global Fund Board, explains the World Bank’s creation of a separate fund to address pandemic preparedness and response and discusses what this may mean for the Global Fund and its partners. In this new financing mechanism, communities and civil society, at the heart of the Global Fund’s response to the three diseases, do not have an equal place at the table. Not only could it duplicate some of the Global Fund’s work, but it could potentially divert financial support from the Global Fund.

ABSTRACT This article summaries the Office of the Inspector General’s OIG Audit Report on the Global Fund’s procurement and supply chain management in the period 2019-2020 and includes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report covers a complex subject with clarity and shows that there is much to do to improve procurement and supply management and reporting.

RÉSUMÉ Le Groupe technique de référence en évaluation a mené des évaluations prospectives dans huit pays durant la période d'allocation 2017-2019. Ces évaluations se sont poursuivies durant une année supplémentaire et ont bénéficié d’une phase d’extension de trois mois. En octobre, un document de position a été présenté au Comité de la stratégie pour l’informer des résultats issus de la phase d’extension de trois mois et des recommandations du TERG, et pour demander la soumission du document au Conseil d’administration à titre informatif.