Facing budget shortfalls, Global Fund may not expand mission

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...

Facing budget crunch, BC restructures health system.

Key Challenges and Issues Facing the New Executive Director of the Global Fund: A Discussion Starter

In its first four years, the Global Fund has had a significant influence in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Currently the Fund provides 20% of global donor funding for HIV/AIDS and 66% of funding for malaria and TB, and has disbursed over $2.3 billion to 131 countries around the world. As of June 2006 its grants had provided ARV treatment for 544,000 people living with HIV...

To fund or not to fund?

Funding agencies use many different criteria and peer review strategies to assess grant proposals.

International Medical Mission Facing Global Increase of Chronic Disease: 2-Year Experience in Bangladesh

Specialists of developing countries are facing the epidemic growth of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). From 2011 to 2013, I, as a Korean volunteer doctor, had been working in a local primary healthcare center in Bangladesh, assessing rates of NCDs. Proportion of patients with NCDs was increased from 74.96% in 1999 to 83.05% in 2012, particularly due to the spreading of diabetes mellitus, cardio...