The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said it was announcing its next leader this week. It didn’t happen. The global health organization’s board was not satisfied with the final three candidates put forward after a months-long search and interview process held by the board’s nominations committee.
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending…
Troy Constable The global campaign for education snagged a high-profile politician this week. Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will…
Vestergaard Frandsen Some 3.3 million lives were saved since 2000 from malaria, says a new WHO report. Deaths worldwide fell…
Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The…
The Global Fund was, and is, one of the most hopeful, compassionate and impressive things the international community has done in a long time. That’s why it’s being celebrated in and around the grand UN confab this week. That’s why some cheered when Britain announced it would give another $1.6 billion this week, and it’s also why some are clamoring for even more funds – since many millions more are still not reached. But like most things we humans do when we rush in to fix something, it was also seriously flawed.
DfID Secretary Justine Greening at UNDP last year.UNDP (New York) – A pledge by the UK to provide the Global…
Earlier this month the UK-based Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin) announced a merger with Save the Children. The two NGOs said…
Luwiza Makukula is a Zambian grandmother who says she would not be alive today if not for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
It’s about money, life and death. It’s the “Big Push” led by Arianna Huffington, and the Huffington Post. It’s UN…