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Global Fund Board Selects New Chair and Vice-Chair
KIGALI, Rwanda – The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria selected Aida Kurtović as its new Chair, after serving as Vice-Chair for the past two years. The Board also selected Ambassador John Simon as incoming Vice-Chair. Kurtović, who is from Bosnia and Herzegovina, was selected for a two-year term during...
Global Fund Names Rutger de Witt Wijnen Interim General Counsel
GENEVA – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today announced that with effect from 1 June 2017, Rutger de Witt Wijnen will become Interim General Counsel at the Global Fund. De Witt Wijnen, currently General Counsel at Green Climate Fund, has more than 30 years of experience as an attorney and has...
Implementer Group Draws Two-Year Road Map
The Implementer Group consists of the ten constituencies on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria that implement Global Fund financing. At the ImplementerGroup retreat in September 2016, all ten constituencies agreed on shared priority areas for 2017- 2019, which were reviewed at the pre-Board meeting in November. Based on...
Delegation Call for Members 2017-2019
Call for Membership to the Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Board of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Membership 2017 to 2019 CLOSING DATE for this call for nominations is Friday March 30, 2017 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria The Global Fund is an international financing institution...
The 36th Global Fund Board meeting: Renewed Commitment to Ending it for good.
Montreux This November 16-17, 2016 the Global Fund Board will meet to convene its 36th meeting in Montreux, Switzerland. This comes just months after the 5th Replenishment conference held in Canada where close to $13 billion dollars was raised to aid in the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria. The Developing NGO Constituency along with...
Joint Communities and Civil Society Delegations to the Board of the Global Fund Statement on the Outcome of the Global Fund 5th Voluntary Replenishment
The Communities and Civil Society Delegations to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) applaud world leaders who pledged a total of $12.9 billion on 17th September for the 5th Voluntary Replenishment of the Global Fund. This is $1 billion more than the 4th Voluntary Replenishment held in...
Private Donors Double Investments to the Global Fund
MONTREAL – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that pledges from private donors and innovative financing initiatives reached US$250 million for the coming three years, more than twice as much as in the previous period. The announcement was made at the launch of the Global Fund’s Fifth Replenishment, hosted by...
Africa Steps Up Again
COTONOU, BENIN – The government of Benin announced a US$2 million contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, signaling global commitment towards ending epidemics that affect people all over the world. The announcement came on the eve of the Global Fund’s Fifth Replenishment Conference on 16-17 September in Montreal, Canada, where...
Financing for Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: Advocacy Strategies for Effective Resource Mobilization
March 23, Panama City By: Jaevion Nelson We had a very productive day discussing issues around resource mobilization, both domestic and external for the response to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The meeting sought to identify and develop a strategy around ways in which stakeholders in the region could work collaboratively to facilitate the Caribbean, particularly...
Developing Countries’ NGOs Heard, at 34th Board Meeting
Geneva, November 2015 The 34th Board Meeting opened on the heels of one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, France – where over 100 people died. The Board acknowledged the lives lost and impacted by the act of violence. In addition, The Eastern and Central Africa Delegation led the Board in remembering the...
