In 21 years, the share of the budget allocated to health in Cameroon has never exceeded 7%. The reasons for this underperformance are related to insufficient political will, low capacity to mobilize resources and poor use of available funds. This is a failure that strikes the mind of anyone with an interest in the implementation…
Mr. Michel Sidibe, the African Special Envoy for the African Medicine Agency (AMA), held a virtual meeting with a section of African representatives to the Board and Committees of the Global Fund and the African Constituency Bureau (ACB) on the 3rd of March 2022. In the meeting were; Prof Pascal Niamba, the Board member for…
The Global Fund 7th replenishment investment case was unveiled during the Global Fund preparatory meeting, that was hosted virtually by a coalition of five countries namely; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa on February 23, 2022. The Global Fund’s target for the Seventh Replenishment aims at raising at least…
A new HIV variant, more virulent and contagious, has emerged. This variant, known as VB, causes an early onset of opportunistic diseases, however It could not spread owing to the effectiveness of prevention and ARV treatment programs implemented in the Netherlands where it is circulating. A new variant of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that…
The fight against HIV, TB and malaria is very often focused on an exclusively hygienic, therapeutic or biomedical approach. This paper does not question the interest or the relevance of such an approach, but it suggests that we should resolutely broaden the scope of this fight to the borders of social inequalities. Actually, health as…
Following the case of Rwanda, one of the GF grants’ implementing countries, the Community Health Program was instituted in 1995 and started with just about 12,000 health workers and was initially conceived as a response to the major public health problems that had developed because of the previous year’s war and the 1994 Genocide against…
The Sustainability, Transition and Co-financing policy follows the Global Fund’s principle of additionality – the GF adds to local resources to fight the three diseases, it does not replace them. It spells out the domestic funding requirements from government in countries where the GF invests. Some conditions apply to all countries where the GF invests.…
Globally, new HIV infections declined by 44% between 2000 and 2021, missing the global target for a 75% reduction in new infections by 2020. The Global Fund Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) published a thematic review on primary HIV prevention, in May 2021 to weigh in on discussions for the 2023-28 Global Fund Strategy. This…
Health has long been a complicated and tragic topic in Africa. By April 2001, Southern African Development Community (SADC) governments together with other African Union member states, had met in Abuja, Nigeria, and signed the Abuja Declaration on health in Africa. It was a historic moment as Africa pledged a new commitment to eliminating the…