The Global Fund held its 38th Board Meeting from 14-15 November 2017 in Geneva. GFAN was invited as a Guest of the Chair to the board meeting and to attend the meetings of the Developed Country NGO Delegation as a permanent observer.
Key issues that were on the agenda for this Board Meeting included;
Selection of the new Executive Director of the Global Fund
Eligibility
Resource Mobilisation and 6th Replenishment
Evolution of CCM’s
Loan buy-downs/Innovative Financing
Various operational issues: approval of operating budget, risk, fraud and corruption policy
Read GFAN’s full report from the Board meeting – this document provides an overview of the Board Meeting process, key documents and important issues, and potential advocacy opportunities for civil society.
GFAN also hosted a call on November 22nd with representatives from the Communities and both Civil Society Delegation...
GFAN was invited as a Guest of the Chair to the 37th Global Fund Board Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 3rd-4th 2017, and to attend the meetings of the Developed Country NGO Delegation as a permanent observer. This report provides an overview of the Board Meeting process, key documents and important issues, and potential advocacy opportunities for civil society.
Key issues that were on the agenda for this Board Meeting included:
Continuing resource mobilization
Sustainability, transition, and co-financing (STC)
Wambo.org
The health situation in Venezuela
Mark Dybul’s departure and the recruitment of a new ED
The agenda, official report, Board decisions, and all other relevant documents for the Board Meeting can be found on the Global Fund website . Hyperlinks to documents related to items covered in GFAN’s report are provided in the relev...
If the European Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) is used to finance solidarity projects, it could be a stepping stone towards ending major pandemics such as AIDS. Through an enhanced cooperation procedure, the leaders of 10 countries must make a collective commitment to allocating a significant share of the European Financial Transaction Tax revenues to development, adaptation to climate change and global health such as the fight against pandemics like AIDS.
DURBAN, South Africa, 20 July 2016 – Fully replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria is essential for delivering on the promises to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic made in the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Declaration on Ending AIDS. While fully replenishing the Fund would save millions of lives, failure to do so would unravel years of progress and jeopardize effective programs for reaching key and vulnerable populations at greatest risk for HIV.
Since 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that it has saved 17 million lives and is on course to reach 22 million lives saved by the end of 2016.
The opportunities for continued and greater progress are many. The Global Fund is now engaged in its Fifth Replenishment process and has set a goal of raising a minimum USD$13 billion to meet its targets over the coming three years. In preparation for the Replenishment, the Global Fund developed an Investment Case that describes those targets, what can be accomplished if the targets are met and what the costs would be.
The focus of this document is to examine the cost of inaction if governments do not commit the estimated resource levels needed to meet the 2020 and 2030 targets to end the HIV, TB and malaria epidemics.
The failure to commit the required resources now will not only undermine the strong progress made to date by the Global Fun...
Since its inception in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) has played a critical role in mobilizing and securing resources to invest in programs that serve key and vulnerable populations.
Key and vulnerable populations are present in all continents, despite continuing official denial of their sheer existence in some regions and countries. Science has taught us that addressing their needs is not only a human rights obligation but also a requirement from an epidemiological and public health point of view. Ending the epidemics will not be possible if we do not increase service coverage among these groups. This requires engagement, empowerment, and mobilization of communities, which is where networks and organizations of key and vulnerable populations are the most effective leaders, and vital Global Fund partners.
This briefing paper, sponsored by the Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN)...
