Malaria researchers say global fund is buying "useless drug"

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...

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

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...

WHO, the Global Fund, and medical malpractice in malaria treatment.

Parity is Positively Useless

We give the first examples of non-trivially positively-useless predicates subject only to P 6= NP. In particular, for every constraint function Q : {−1, 1}4 → R, we construct Contraint-SatisfactionProblem (CSP) instances without negations which have value at least 1 − ε when evaluted for the arity-four odd-parity predicate, yet it is NP-hard to find a solution with value significantly better th...