The Annual Consultative Meeting of the Global Fund’s African Constituency Bureau is the opportunity to bring together the 46 countries of the African constituencies to exchange views on the policy issues which are the topics for discussion on the agenda for the Global Fund Board Meeting. This year is special. The African Constituency Bureau is celebrating…
This resistance, already reported in some countries of the continent, simply translates into longer recovery time. But it is feared that in the long term, it might cause the treatment to become totally ineffective. Malaria experts are concerned about the increasing resistance of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), the only…
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…
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…