Global Fund-related
Organisations, networks and people working on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Eastern Europe and Central Asia recently came together in reaction to potential changes to the Global Fund’s prioritisation model currently under discussion. There are strong concerns that changes to the existing model could exclude countries with concentrated epidemics from accessing Global Fund resources. In response, a petition requests board members of the Global Fund during the next board meeting (April 28-30) consider the needs of countries with concentrated epidemics when revising the prioritisation model so as to ensure that prioritisation does not compound the effects of existing eligibility criteria.
Read the full petition here: http://bit.ly/GlobalFundPetition
As many donor governments are promoting the establishment of a ceiling on the next round of grants, the Global AIDS Alliance and Health GAP issued a joint statement calling on donor governments, especially the US government, to publicly clarify that they do not endorse a ceiling on the number of people who can receive lifesaving services from the Global Fund and that they do not contemplate any postponement of the lifesaving grants.
(http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/9727221/1746098722/name/GAA_HealthGap_STopGFCaps_27Apr2009.doc)
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