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ABSTRACT An audit conducted by the Office of the Inspector General has concluded that major improvements are needed in the management and implementation of Global Fund grants in India. The audit covered 10 grants between 2008 and 2012.

ABSTRACT The Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations has published a report based on a survey across seven countries in the region, examining the degree and nature of civil society and community engagement in the Global Fund’s country dialogue processes. The report notes overall improvement compared to 2015, but highlights the persistence of some of the same issues, and makes recommendations to address them.

ABSTRACT Using the Global Fund’s data service, Aidspan takes a look at which countries received increases in their total allocations of 50% or more, as well as the top 20 countries with the largest allocations for each of the three diseases in this 2020-2022 cycle (Mozambique, India and Nigeria for HIV, TB and malaria, respectively).

By:David Garmaise 2 NEWSJun 26th 2019 ABSTRACT A $40-million award to India from portfolio optimization will help India secure a $400-million loan from the World Bank, to fight tuberculosis. Loan 'buy-downs' are one of the innovative financing mechanisms that the Global Fund has been exploring as a way of increasing domestic financing and scaling up services in low- and middle-income countries. This is the Global Fund's first investment of this kind.

ABSTRACT The preparatory meeting for the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment, on 7–8 February 2019 in Delhi, India, is the first such meeting to be held in an implementing country. Indian CSOs are calling on India to double its spending on health and to increase its contribution to the Global Fund.

ABSTRACT The government of India announced on 5 September that it would host the Global Fund’s preparatory meeting for the Sixth Replenishment. The pre-meeting will be in New Delhi on 8 February 2019.

ABSTRACT India is preparing to transition away from Global Fund support –– gradually, over a nine-year period. Some transition measures have already been adopted. India’s transition plans were described at some length in grant documents related to the country’s 2017 funding requests for TB, HIV and malaria. We provide a summary.

ABSTRACT India, the second most populated country in the world, and soon to become the largest, contributes 27% of the world’s TB burden. It plans to end TB by 2025. This article summarizes the comments from the Technical Review Panel and the Grants Approvals Committee on India’s TB funding request. In January, the Board approved four TB grants and one TB/HIV grant to India.

ABSTRACT This article summarizes developments concerning incentive funding awarded to Nigeria and India as part of the 2014-2016 allocations. In both cases, the awards were conditional on the country coming up with matching funds. Warning: The explanations in this article are somewhat technical.

ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General has identified expenditures that were not compliant with the grant agreements in three separate investigations. The amounts involved ranged from $56,966 for a malaria grant in Guyana to $311,637 for a TB grant in Bangladesh. The third country was India, where the OIG found non-compliant expenditures of $97,149 in a TB grant.