Global Fund calls for increased AIDS funding

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...

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...

How a new funding model will shift allocations from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Policy makers deciding how to fund global health programs in low- and middle-income countries face important but difficult questions about how to allocate resources across countries. In this article we present a typology of three allocation methodologies to align allocations with priorities. We then apply our typology to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. We examined the ...

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

Importance of sexually transmitted infections in funding for HIV within proposals to the Global Fund

INTRODUCTION Yearly, an estimated 448 million treatable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur worldwide. Over 80% of all new HIV infections are acquired through sexual transmission. The enormous burden of morbidity and mortality due to STIs impact directly on quality of life, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and child health, and indirectly as cofactors for HIV transmission. Sexually...