Global fund at a crossroads:
Keep fighting for the fund By Mara Kardas-Nelson
Last year, on November 22, just days before the commemoration of World AIDS Day, the global HIV community was shocked by an announcement from the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund). With far less funding available than originally forecast for 2011-2013, the board decided that there was simply not enough to support funding Round 11. While the Global Fund did eventually announce in May that $1.6 billion would be made immediately available, questions remain as to how this money will be spent and what the organisation’s funding model will look like in future.
FUNDING ISSUES
The cancellation of Round 11 of the Global Fund: Why it happened; what impact it will have; and what we need to do about it.
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