Africa calls for investments in health systems at the sixth global fund partnership forums

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria organized the 6th Partnership Forums for the Africa region from 15 to 18 February 2021. The Forums, entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 restrictions, reviewed input received on Strategy development to date and collected the perspectives of a wide range of stakeholders. The Strategy is a roadmap to…

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African Voice for the Global Fund Campaign Formally Launched: The African Constituencies affirm their position to inform the development of the next Global Fund Strategy.

        The campaign which  is currently running for the  next 5 months aims to create awareness (at a larger scale) and buy-in about  priorities identified by African Constituencies , and ultimately influence the inclusion of the same in the next Global Fund Strategy; These  priorities or ‘’top asks’’  have emerged from the…

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COVID-19 and the meaning of ‘access to treatment’ within this year’s UNAIDS World AIDS Theme: “Global solidarity, shared responsibility”

Although the experiences learned from HIV pandemic can be applied to the COVID-19 situation, these are one of the many sad stories that may indicate some retrogression towards the advances that have been made so far.  After getting the right information on the current procedures of getting the drugs during COVID-19 at local clinics, Hamisa…

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Stepping up domestic financing for health: ending the epidemics of HIV, TB and malaria by 2030

African countries are now facing the concurrent challenge of a high burden of communicable diseases, responding to and mitigating a pandemic, and at the same time experiencing economic shocks. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank estimate that total African Gross Domestic Product will contract by 3.6% in 2020 . This gloomy economic outlook…

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Post 2022 Global Fund Strategy: Africa Affirms its position

This annual gathering,that took place just after country consultations during which Africa reflected on its priorities for the next Global Fund strategy, enabled countries to (i) Advance discussions on the Global Fund’s post-2022 strategy by further analyzing the issues identified in the Stakeholder Engagement Framework, with a view to identifying our key priorities for the…

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