Global Fund approves $2.4 billion in funding
On November 11, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria wrapped up its 20th Board meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund, reviewed the progress of the Global Fund, noting that it has disbursed $8.8 billion to more than 620 grants in 138 countries. In 2009 alone, the Global Fund has:
- Placed 600,000 people on ARV treatment
- Supported prevention of mother-to child transmission services for 537,000 pregnant women
- Provided multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis treatment for 20,000 people
- Treated 90 million cases of malaria
At the meeting, the Global Fund Board approved $2.4 billion in its ninth round of funding, making it the second-largest round to date. In total, 85 proposals were approved, representing just over half of all eligible proposals. Beyond the traditional disease-specific grants, funding was approved for the first wave of National Strategy Applications (NSAs), which ensure that countries develop comprehensive national plans to address the three diseases. The approved proposals will be asked to make 10% efficiencies (cuts in total requested funding) to accommodate decreased funding resources.
Funding for the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) pilot was also approved. The AMFm is an innovative financing mechanism designed to expand access to the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), and to help reduce the use of less-effective and potentially harmful treatments. The AMFm does this by negotiating a discounted price for effective malaria treatment, and brings the price down further for those in malaria-endemic countries through a co-payment.
The Board also recognized the need to increase effectiveness and simplify the Global Fund’s operating model. The Board decided to transition the grant portfolio to single streams of funding to simplify support. This means that the Global Fund will consolidate grants supporting a program to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria into one grant agreement (a “Single Stream Agreement”). Additionally, the Board resolved to immediately discontinue the Rolling Continuation Channel (RCC), which allowed expiring grants to be renewed. The Board is set to meet again early next year to determine priority areas for further changes in its operating model.
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November 24, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Please be VERY CAREFUL navigating information on END RESULTS that I am underwriting and have been walking for quite some time.
One of my sisters works with ILO and another brother law with the UN both currently HQ in Geneva.
I carry ONE campaign data on my person to PROTECT the correct delivery of information of S.M.A.R.T. offices.
I am currently still in the New Orleans markets closing on the Bill & Melinda Gates Library (FEMA Problem) in direction of the University of New Orleans (still post Katrina, and some of you zero’s think it doesn’t matter? – i am not laughing).
Also closing on “Any Given Sunday:” the Louisiana Soccerdome on a 911 pitch to be filmed and produced on Veterans Memorial Blvd for FIFA Worldwide S.A. 2010. And if the latter fails to come to market I gurantee you I have delivered this information civilly quite some time and “conscientous objection” is a triple speak on wanting to have your lunch and not sharing with the homeless, Yes some of you “zero’s” need to learn to teach to share your stuffs – i know it’s hard – not everyone has a Bank One (R) operation to market, right?
Washington DC hypocritical oaths on end results they not only do not own but evidently cannot even produce has caused me to become a STRONG believer for the ONE Campaign.
Steve Scalise and I (mentioned in early threads on this site were freinds and used to play pick up football on Johnny C. Bright Playground . . . ask him the next time you see him in his offices.
My legal action in the United States is a REAL TIME RICO lawsuit which I produce (and intend to fully collect on) under the same jurisdiction of law that DC supposedly upholds. I already testified in the Rayburn House and more… and if party A or B was “blind to that fact” what make any of you zero’s think I need to “Play it Again Sam? ..
SMOKE COTTON! The Truth is much Stranger than the best Phiction some of you zero’s can produce
If any of you Zeros doubt my word I challenge you to call me @ 504-832-0521 (napoleanic code protocols on that telephone number.)
Stefan
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November 24, 2009 at 1:37 pm
yes thank you… slicing websites on a razor’s edge .. for information that I would prefer to deliver in person… but your legal bureaus force me to use “The Internet”.. and the “Windows” who’s license supposedly belongs to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (in the community where this is being written Jefferson Parish, East Bank – Easter Middle Distric Courts, Louisiana. The house I was supposed to put ownership into (near UNO) is currently still a Senator Landrieu foible on a DC AntiTrust case against the so called “Brain Trust” of Portland / Seattle / Japanese culture … as if they are the only humans in the United States that understand how things work, why they do not and what OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE ON TRUTH actually means on the Federal Register.
I represent myself “IN PERSONA” as would anyone else of sound legal mind – I play soccer with the Jesuits & Rummel guys to keep in shape and head strong.
Third Parties perpetrating my goodness can easily become a MAJOR lawsuit smashed into multiple media licenses (instead of organizing them into sane bankeable end results) in this Greater New Orleans community attached to International Law Protocols and more. Yes Data is that forensic.
So for example, I have to dine with “Tony” (a childhood friend) who thinks that the future is a bullet for someone’s brain?, not unlike JFK… and so “You” continue to perpetrate NON-CIVIL answers – HIDe behind your desktops and ignore the ugly truths on the ground?
I know it’s hard, imagine how I feel! One thing at a time please. Civil protocols ALWAYS. I do NOT carry weapons on my person – and yet others are convinced I should…
God Luck.
If you doubt me Mr. Zero I give you permission to use CVIL PROTOCOL under Napoleanic Code to conact the person writing this text you are staring at. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Stefan @ 504-832-0521
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November 24, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Evidently you do not own my privacy policies…. c’est dommage.
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November 24, 2009 at 1:45 pm
how do you signoff on this website so that “Mr. Zero” will stop perpetrating on things he does not own? [wonders] …. people you cannot google the truth… there is zero search engines that will give you answers to what your attorney’s think they own and do not.
Sorry. Who the hell do you think is writing this, my mother? Jesus Christ people WAKE UP ALREADY!
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