UQD

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved $57.9 million in funding for portfolio optimization, following recommendations from the Secretariat's Grant Approvals Committee to the Board, to finance interventions listed on the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand. The additional funds will address challenges related to Algeria's HIV program transitioning out of Global Fund support, will back Ethiopia's initiative to roll out an updated national TB policy, will support Ghana’s procurement of long-lasting insecticidal nets for 2021 mass distribution, will bolster TB case detection and diagnosis in Nigeria, and will support procurement of the new multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Uzbekistan.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has allocated $43.3 million in additional funding for portfolio optimization to several Global Fund grants, including Kosovo (HIV/AIDS), the Middle East Response (integrated), Namibia (Malaria), Nigeria (Malaria), South Sudan (Tuberculosis), and Zambia (TB/HIV).

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved funding for another batch of interventions from the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand. This large set of portfolio-optimization awards comprises $135.7 million and €25.7 million for 28 grants across 23 countries. These awards allow the Global Fund to fill gaps in services in countries whose original requests for funding from the 2017-2019 allocations did not cover all of their immediate needs.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved funding for another batch of interventions from the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand. These awards allow the Fund to fill gaps in services in countries whose original requests for funding from the 2017-2019 allocations did not cover all of their immediate needs. These revisions are to four grants from four countries: Eritrea, Eswatini, Kyrgyz Republic, and Sudan.

ABSTRACT In May, the Global Fund Board approved five new country grants in four countries: Gabon, Georgia, Peru and Serbia. The Board also approved two multi-country grants and 18 sets of interventions from the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand.

ABSTRACT In March, the Global Fund Board approved two country grants and awarded supplementary funding to a third. Egypt, a non-CCM applicant, received a new TB/HIV grant. The Board also approved a multi-country grant for the Caribbean region, and five sets of interventions from the Register of Unfunded Quality Demand.

ABSTRACT The Board has acknowledged that there might be a circumstance where the Global Fund will want to provide support to a non-eligible country experiencing a health crisis (e.g. Venezuela). The Board tasked the Secretariat with preparing proposals for countries in this situation and said that the proposals will have to describe how the support would be funded. The Board is concerned about the potential impact on programs in eligible countries if the Fund supports non-eligible countries in crisis. The Secretariat appears frustrated with how this issue has been handled up to now.

ABSTRACT The latest batch of funding approvals for 2017–2019 may have been comparatively small ($40.5 million for three new grants plus $40.6 million for 10 matching fund requests), but there are interesting developments to report regarding each of the new grants. The Board has also approved additional funding of $4.0 million for a Kenya HIV grant as a result of a private sector contribution.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board recently approved a TB, an HIV and a malaria grant for Nepal, all of which have a civil society principal recipient: Save the Children Federation. The Technical Review Panel cited numerous strengths in the funding requests, including the fact that Nepal is on its way towards malaria elimination, and that the country is planning to assume 100% of ARV costs by 2020 and triple its financial commitments to the TB program. However, there are concerns that lack of progress on human rights could compromise the attainment of HIV diagnosis and care targets.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved another $102.9 million in funding for six grants emanating from four funding requests submitted by four countries. Interventions worth $40.3 million were added to the Unfunded Quality Demand Register. Nepal led the way with three grants approved worth $43.6 million. The cumulative amount awarded to date from the 2017–2019 allocations is just under $9 billion.