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ABSTRACT The Global Fund has approved $56.6 million for six country grants. This article provides a breakdown.

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 After an absence of 18 months, the Global Fund is returning to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea. The Board has approved a consolidated TB and malaria grant worth $41.7 million. The Fund says that improvements have been made to the implementation and verification arrangements that were at the root of the Fund’s decision to terminate grants to the DPRK in February 2018.

Funding revisions to nine grants from Bhutan, Niger, South Sudan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan

RÉSUMÉ Le Comité technique d’examen des propositions a fini d’examiner toutes les demandes de financement relatives à la période d’allocation 2017-2019, et recommandé l’allocation de l’intégralité des fonds à allouer (10,3 milliards de dollars), des fonds de contrepartie à effet catalyseur (313 millions de dollars) et des fonds multipays à effet catalyseur (260 millions de dollars), presque toutes ces recommandations ayant été approuvées par le Conseil d’administration à ce jour. La presque totalité des 20 millions de dollars mis de côté pour les financements d’urgence a également été attribuée.

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 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 Among the grants approved by the Global Fund Board on 21 December 2018 were two multi-country grants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and one in West and Central Africa. An EECA TB grant was designed to improve early drug-resistant TB case detection and treatment outcomes. Another grant will support a network of supranational TB reference laboratories in the WCA. The third grant targets HIV-related key populations in the EECA.

ABSTRACT Acknowledging that there are implementation challenges associated with a Mali malaria grant that it recently recommended for approval, the Grant Approvals Committee said that it welcomed the Secretariat’s plans “to identify bottlenecks, and holistically review and harmonize the controls in place with the aim of balancing risk mitigation and effective grant implementation.” The concern about balancing risk mitigation and grant implementation has been raised before in other grants.

ABSTRACT During the first six months of 2019, new implementation arrangements will be phased in for Nigeria’s TB and TB/HIV grants. Under the new arrangements, the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program will manage TB activities in public health facilities and communities; and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria will manage implementation of the private sector component.