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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 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 Two reports published by the Global Fund and the World Health Organization detail the effects of COVID-19 on the fight against tuberculosis.
ABSTRACT Technical assistance providers are invisible but vital in the Global Fund's processes. This article describes their work, their perceived challenges and successes.
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 Introductions and links to items of possible interest to those connected to the Global Fund, its partners and communities. In this edition: new WHO guidelines for policy on Community Health Workers, the Global Fund publishes a code of ethical conduct for CCM members, and how the Global Fund is starting to reap the benefits of reducing packaging for health commodities.
ABSTRACT Some of the leaders of the world’s most influential health organizations, and of governments grappling with the challenges of reaching universal health coverage, discussed in a special session at AIDS 2018 how the ‘elimination’ of HIV and achievement of universal health coverage should be addressed.
ABSTRACT The new TB guidelines from the World Health Organization will expand access to testing and care for people with latent TB infection. The precise implications for the Global Fund are not yet known.
ABSTRACT All but one of the Global Fund’s 14 strategic initiatives are now in the implementation phase. The Secretariat says that each initiative has a “sharp focus” on deliverables and outcomes. The strategic initiatives, which have a budget of $194 million, are part of the Fund’s catalytic investments.
ABSTRACT This article considers two recent initiatives to boost the global response to the epidemic of tuberculosis – currently the leading infectious killer in the world. The first is $125 million in catalytic investments from the Global Fund to spur TB case finding. The second is a planned high-level meeting on TB at the 2018 United Nations General Assembly.
