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Sep 2014 MSM and Transgender Engagement in Global Fund New Funding Model +
Publisher: APCOM
The key feature of the Global Fund’s New Funding Model (NFM) is to ensure the inclusiveness of civil society and key populations (KP), including men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people.
Country Dialogue is the term used by the Global Fund to describe the inclusive, ongoing consultative processes at the country level that is meant to inform all stages of the NFM process. It is also one of the main criteria in assessing whether funding applications are robust.
APCOM has released a set of guidance documents, entitled ‘MSM and Transgender Engagement in Global Fund New Funding Model Country Dialogue’. There are 17 different versions of the guidance document for each of the 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific region (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, PNG, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam). These guidance documents aim to help civil society organisations participate in the country dialogue within the NFM.
The country dialogue process is a significant opportunity for MSM and transgender organisations to be meaningfully involved in all the stages of the NFM. However, the different NFM stages can be difficult to understand and civil society organisations need to know when and how they can best participate.
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Aug 2014 Turning the Tide Against HIV and Tuberculosis: Global Fund Investment Guidance for Eastern Europe and Central Asia +
Publisher: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund, in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, embarked on the development of a Global Fund Investment Guidance for EECA for the 2014-2016 allocation period. The aim of this guidance is to recommend strategic priorities for contributing to sustainable impact on HIV/AIDS and TB in the region and thereby help reverse the tide of the epidemics.
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Aug 2014 Responding to Health Challenges: The Role of Domestic Resource Mobilization +
Publisher: Centre for International Governance Innovation
At least US$87 billion is needed to support the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in low- and middle-income African countries between 2014 and 2016. Much of the financing for these diseases previously came from international sources; however, implementing countries are progressively graduating from international support as their economies grow. The authors of the brief, Alan Whiteside and Samantha Bradshaw, explain that in order to reach the US$87 billion target, national governments need to mobilize more domestic resources and increase spending on health. They recommend that health ministers in Africa work with international donors, development partners and their own respective national governments to mobilize domestic resources and advocate health spending in the context of shared responsibility and individualized needs.
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Aug 2014 Pushing the envelope: Does the Global Fund’s New Funding Model foster country ambitions? +
Publisher: Médecins Sans Frontières
After years of reforms and measures put in place to cope with a funding shortfall, the Global Fund’s New Funding Model presents an unmissable opportunity, and MSF expects to see further progress as countries seize this momentum. However, a lack of clarity at country level regarding the New Funding Model, combined with low-level country funding allocations, may pose a threat to this progress.
This issue brief outlines key aspects of the New Funding Model that are critical for countries to put into practice. The second section provides observations from MSF teams working in the field of HIV in Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mozambique and Malawi regarding the current needs and challenges as these countries prepare their strategic plans and concept notes to access funding.
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Aug 2014 Data Watch: Closing a persistent gap in the AIDS response +
An Action Agenda to End AIDS, launched by amfAR and AVAC at the 2012 International AIDS Conference, outlined key actions that need to be taken in 2012–2016 to lay the foundation to end the AIDS pandemic. In launching the Action Agenda, amfAR and AVAC pledged to use the framework as a monitoring mechanism to enhance accountability in the AIDS response.
In this update, amfAR and AVAC take stock of global progress towards ending the AIDS epidemic and lay out an agenda for improving accountability through better data collection.
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Jul 2014 The funding crisis for harm reduction: Donor retreat, government neglect and the way forward +
Publisher: Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Harm Reduction International, the International Drug Policy Consortium and the Alliance published a report which indicates that HIV prevention services for people who inject drugs are not being prioritised due to changing donor policies and national government neglect. This failure to invest will bring an exponential rise in HIV transmission which in turn will cause additional costs to government health sectors.
A major focus of the report is on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – until now the largest funder of HIV services for people who inject drugs. According to the study, Global Fund support for these so-called ‘harm reduction’ programmes is at risk due to a ‘new funding model’ launched in 2013. Half of the 58 countries that have previously received harm reduction funding are now either ineligible for support or have not been assigned any ‘new’ HIV money.
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Jun 2014 2014 Global Governance Report Card +
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
The Global Fund is praised in the report card’s Public Health category for changes made under the new funding model. CFR also applauded the Global Fund for what it deemed “a highly successful” Fourth Voluntary Replenishment Conference in December 2013. At that time, international donors committed $12 billion in funding for the 2014-2016 period.
The Global Governance Report Card was designed to grade international performance in addressing the world’s most daunting challenges, and aims to inspire innovative and effective responses from global and U.S. policymakers.
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May 2014 AWA Consultative Expert Committee Meeting: Summary Report +
Publisher: AWA Consultative Expert Committee, African Union
Final report of the AU Summit, 27–28 May 2014, technical meeting that was adopted by the Heads of State that includes key recommendations to fully fund the Global Fund and increase domestic financing.
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May 2014 Open letter to Mark Dybul: Abandon the “Blue Ribbon Task Force to Develop a Global Framework on Tiered-Pricing” +
Publisher: Health GAP
An international civil society letter endorsed by 220 organisations, recommending that Dr Mark Dybul stop pursuing an initiative on tiered pricing to address the lack of access to affordable medicines in middle income countries.
Mark Dybul’s response
Equitable Access Initiative proposal
Critical analysis of the Equitable Access Initiative -
May 2014 The Impact of the Global Fund’s New Funding Model on Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Countries +
Publisher: UCSF Global Health Group
In an effort to understand the impact of the Global Fund’s NFM on the 15 Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) countries (listed in table 1), the UCSF Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative analyzed the change in available funding, if any, for each of the countries. Findings are summarized here.