Global Fund

The Global Fund Seeks Additional Grants from the G8 in Hopes of Helping Millions More

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 08.09.2009 | World


Michel D. Kazatchkine

It is the very success of hundreds of health programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that has produced the surge in demand for fresh grants.

Can HIV/AIDS Donors be the Lead "Gender Bender" of Global Development?

Nandini Oomman | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


Nandini Oomman

When it comes to HIV/AIDS and gender, big donors talk the talk but sometimes stumble when it comes time to walk the walk in the prevention, treatment and care programs that they fund.

The World's Best Investment: The Global Fund

Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


Josh Ruxin

The Global Fund is facing a funding shortfall of about $2 billion; a paltry sum in view of US financial bailouts, but resources that, if made available, will save millions of lives.

Riders For Health

Julia Moulden | Posted 04.14.2009 | Living


Julia Moulden

I wonder if a woman who once raced motorcycles ever imagined herself running an ambulance service in the heart of Africa... Yet that's just what Andre...

A New Strategic Consensus on Foreign Assistance Must Begin with Global Health

Carol Peasley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World


Carol Peasley

It is not enough -- and not appropriate -- for international NGOs to be directly providing services. We must simultaneously build local capacity, if not, none of the results will be sustainable.

Staggering Gains in the Fight Against AIDS

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living


Michel D. Kazatchkine

In a world where inequality continues to grow, the recent gains in health form a bridge between the rich and the poor. We need to strengthen this bridge.

Hope that Obama Will Lead on AIDS and Poverty, But ...

Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


Matthew Kavanagh

I was riding high as I read on the Obama transition website a reiterated commitment to "invest at least $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/AIDS." And then it vanished.

Bono's (RED) Campaign Sees Red Over Shortcomings

New York Times | Ron Nixon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A year ago, staff members at the Treatment and Research AIDS Center could barely cope. Patients, unable to find care elsewhere, flowed in from every c...