£50m AIDS fund aim

Editorial: Global Health Fund or Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria?

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFTAM) has generated passionate debates since the UN Secretary General called for its creation in April 2001 [The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFTAM) 2002].The debates concentrated on issues such as the gap between required funds and funds pledged (US$ 2 billion so far – some of it one-off contributions – where U...

Global Fund for AIDS, TB and malaria opens shop.

We have the money, we have the commitment — now what do we do? This is the unusual question that will be facing AIDS, TB and malaria programme managers over the next few months. The reason? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is ready to spend its first moneys. The fund is a new international financing mechanism championed by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the UN, to tackl...

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).

Building a 50M Corpus of Tajik Language

Paper presents by far the largest available computer corpus of Tajik Language of the size of more than 50 million words. To obtain the texts for the corpus two different approaches were used. The paper brings a description of both of them, discusses their advantages and disadvantages and shows some statistics of the two respective partial corpora. Then the paper characterizes the resulting join...

Medicines without Doctors: Why the Global Fund Must Fund Salaries of Health Workers to Expand AIDS Treatment

0605 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (“the Global Fund”) was created to fi ght three of the world’s most devastating diseases. Since its creation in 2002, it has struggled with the diffi cult task of focusing on three diseases, and at the same time supporting the fragile public health systems that are supposed to implement this fi ght on the ground. Recent internal comme...