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Unleashed Fury: Climate Change’s Assault on Health and the Battle Against Malaria

Climate Change represents a profound threat to achieving the Global Fund’s mission and to the vulnerable countries, communities and people at the center of its strategy. 71% of Global Fund resources support the 50 most climate-vulnerable countries and 87% of the global malaria burden and Global Fund allocations for malaria are in these climate-vulnerable countries.…

Africa Ministers of Health unite in support of the Global Fund Seventh Replenishment

The African Constituency Bureau in collaboration with the Global Fund Secretariat, WHO AFRO Regional Director’s Office, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Togo, held successful Global Fund 7th replenishment advocacy discussions on the margins of the 72nd WHO AFRO regional committee meeting in Lomé, Togo on 26th August 2022. The…

Community Health Program: the GF needs to properly  support this component in its next strategy for greater impact

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 Global Fund Sustainability, Transition and Co-financing (STC) policy – the Co-financing from African constituencies’ perspective

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.…