bed nets

ABSTRACT Aidspan is taking a deeper look at the Global Fund’s different innovative financing instruments over a series of three articles, following the Global Fund’s opening of a formal consultation process earlier this year to develop a more structured approach to innovative finance within the organization. This third article describes innovation and cost-reduction incentive mechanisms and discusses the pros and cons of instruments, such as challenge funds, advance market commitments and seed funding.

ABSTRACT The steering committee of the Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative in the Greater Mekong delta in Southeast Asia has submitted a funding request for a second phase of the program. Plans for Phase 2 reflect expert opinion that the only way to contain resistance to the P. falciparum strain of malaria is to eliminate malaria entirely in the region. The Technical Review Panel has completed its assessment of the funding request.

ABSTRACT Programs supported by The Global Fund added another 787,000 people on antiretroviral treatment in the first half of 2016, bringing cumulative results to 10 million. During that same period, the number of smear-positive TB cases detected and treated increased by 1.4 million (cumulative total: 15.6 million); and the number of mosquito nets distributed rose by 54 million (cumulative total: 713 million). In a comment, Aidspan says that it difficult to know how much of the increase in numbers of people receiving services is due to better counting.