Sergey Mishustin - Apr 08, 2006

Dear russian-speaking Colleagues,

We give you information on the website of Tomsk Oblast Coordination Committee to Fight HIV and TB (the GLobal Fund Grant RUS-304-G02-T «The Tomsk Oblast Comprehensive Strategy to Contain and Control Tuberculosis»):

http://www.pih.ru/tocc/

We will will be grateful for your comments and questions.

Best regards,
Sergey Mishustin, MD
Head of Tomsk Oblast Coordination Committee to Fight HIV and TB Secretariat, Chief TB Physician of Tomsk Oblast Health Department, Siberia, Russia

awaka - Mar 23, 2006

Millennium Development Goals In September 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 member nations came together to make the alleviation of poverty and the fulfillment of human rights their highest priorities. This unprecedented agreement spawned the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—eight objectives to accelerate human development, achieve universal equality, and attain a more peaceful world by 2015. While ambitious, the MDGs are achievable, but only through a global concert of efforts among groups and individuals at all levels. The responsibility does not rest on the shoulders of poor countries alone. Rich nations must also take ownership of the MDGs and support policies and initiatives that strive to meet them. The world in 2015 will be one of our own making: a reflection of our shared success—or failure—to meet the Goals and ensure that all people have the means to fulfill their individual potential on {Goal 6}
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WOMEN, YOUTH AND CHILDREN., AWAKA GO FORWARD INT'L

awaka - Mar 23, 2006

National-level action We call on governments to: • Adapt the promises in the global Millennium Declaration and apply the Millennium Development Goals to the national context. • Ensure that adequate domestic and external resources are allocated to the provision of high quality public services that are accessible to all. • Actively involve civil society and the poor, particularly socially excluded groups, in the formulation of national development priorities, policies and plans. • Be fully accountable and transparent in the use of public resources and strive to wipe out corruption. • Exercise the right to determine at national level policies and practices that benefit the majority of citizens, and to resist potentially damaging, externally driven conditions imposed by international institutions and agreements
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WOMEN, YOUTH AND CHILDREN., AWAKA GO FORWARD INT'L

Dr. Lalit Shah - Feb 02, 2006

Message from Maria Kamundulio,

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: CAN GF DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS?
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Hello,

I feel like the new kid on the block,that is because l am the new kid on the block:-)

My name is Maria. I work and live in Nairobi, Kenya.I am a Public Relations Officer who is bodering on becoming a Project Manager. Really these two fields are quite similar in nature. Very few differences.
Anyways, today l just need to wonder out aloud hoping that l will get positive responses.
For the longest time now l have been wondering why. Why is it that the GF gives funds to governments or organizations and then later you hear of lack of accountability from these institutions.Why would one give funds to another who they know is not accountable? Yet those that are clean and totally accountable experience such difficulties just trying to get funds?

Please tell me because l have no answer. I work for an organization that it's staff has been programmed to account to a tee whatever monies they are given.It is rigorous yet very straight up. No many corners to go to before you account. But for everything you get you must account and with receipts. And no you can't fake them. Our accounts department will pull it right from under your nose. We work with a number of donors. A good number of our radio projects have been repeat funded because of this very clean cut system of accounting and credibility.

Now with that in mind...do you now know why l have been wondering how people with a system of consistent accountability can't even get funds from the GF? Sitting in my office are about 1,500 books. An additional 1,500 will be here in a few weeks. These books are on HIV/AIDS targetting an audience that is sometimes forgotten yet discrimination and stigma is at its highest here- the church.

But l have not been able to get funds for these books. People keep saying good idea talk to the GF. When l try walls stem up from no where.
I have been wondering GF, is it possible to start a system where you know who is accountable and working with those governments or organizations? Won't this stop all the hoolabaloo of funds being mismanaged?I know you don't micro manage, but it is getting out of hand. Even this morning l got to hear some mismanagement of funds given by some funding body.

Its disturbing to hear of mismanagement of funds. It is also disturbing to hear of people who don't report to donors as agreed. But it is more disturbing when those who work honestly cannot get funds because of walls stemming from nowhere to prevent progress.
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Greater power, greater responsibility



Message from Noodle

Location: Nepal
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject: Global fund a politics ?
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Hello all,
This is to address all the PLHIV friends out there in the world.
Sometimes I wonder if Global Fund is a total political ball game rather than anything that we talk in the confereces or in the workshops.

D.I.Y.
Noodle ,Nepal
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Message from Barry Coleman:

Joined: 07 Feb 2006, Posts: 1, Location: UK/US Post Subject : Future Role of GF


It seems to be that we can all gain something by shifting some of our intellectual attention slightly from the refined and important area of policy-making down to the highly critical question of what happens on the ground. We are all having trouble here and it may be because we assume that practical interventions on whatever scale do not call for any sustained intellectual effort. This is not so and in Africa at least, GF interventions and many other fail instantly when they hit the ground. Our field is the field of sustainable transportation for health care services and other humanitarian interventions and I must say I think it would help a little if GF funding were associated with some achievable requirements in the area of proven, sustained delivery. We all agree with the need for sustained delivery to rural communities in Africa and certainly no-one would agree with its negative (namely that it should not happen). This makes it a truism but it will nonetheless be a helpful one if we do something about it. Our own teams on the ground have certainly been commissioned to manage vehicles purchased from GF funding that have been bought and delivered without any funding (or thought) for running costs. This means they will soon fail in Africa, as they would under such circumstances anywhere on the planet.

They needn't fail (with all the ghastly downstream consequences). Making sure they function normally is a practical, at times slightly oily matter involving the regular replacement of filters and so on. But why, because it is oily and practical, should it not be thought about seriously at the moment the dispositions are decided upon and made? Can we connect the top and the bottom of the process a little better? Is there a rule or a tradition or a policy that says we can't?

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Lalit Shah's message:

Hellow friends ,
Iam Lalit Shah from western part of India, a state called Gujarat. We are a community based voluntary organisation founded by Anita Shah & myself about 17 years back in this small village called Ranasan with population of 4000. I am a medical doctor and she is microbiologist but now a worker and main functionary of women's programm.We have intrest in rural health care delivary system and rural development. With a modest start in 1989 by now we have a 40 bed rural hospital in this small village and are with a TB programm since inception with average detection of about 35-40 sputum positive patients of tuberculosis every month. Encountering malaria very frequently and landing up with question of what to do with the newly detected HIV positive patient. We run the show with the help of donations from friends, well wishers and like minded institution which are mostly local charitable organisations.I donot know exactly where the global fund is active in our region .About more than 6-8 months back I came across an advertisement in local newspaper about the global fund and its search for partners to fight HIV-TB & Malaria. All three being our daily companions I developed intrest to know more about the global fund and I opened the website. From whatever I could gather from the information provided on the site was that the global fund worked only with the national governments and hence I never got back to open the site again. But recently I received e-mail about e-forum ( may be my e-mail address was retained by the fund)and out of curiosity I read the mail after about a month and found the forum a very useful means of getting feedback from ordinary people so I registerd yesterday.
As am not familiar with e-forum Iam finding it little difficult to participate but I am confident I will receive help and though if informed in what way global fund is active in thia part of India I can definitely give our inputs as well as even without that I would communicate in what way according to us global fund should have its working to fight HIV-TB & Malaria.
With good wishes,
Lalit Shah
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BeckyMc - Jan 26, 2006

My name is Becky McDonald and I am the Vice Chairperson of the Board of the Foundation for Hospices in Sub Saharan Africa. I have 28 years of experience in hospice administration in the US and our hospice program has a hospice "twin" or partner in Johannesburg, SA.

These are very interesting discussions. To reply to the moderators request for new/potential areas for global funding, I'd like to suggest funding for palliative and hospice care. No matter how many people access ARV's, and we all know treatment for everybody with active AIDS is not going to happen, there is a desparate need for funding of the professional and lay people to care for people dying of AIDS. There is also a desparate need for every country to have access to morphine to provide adequate pain control. People with AIDS, whether on treatment or not, deserve optimal pain control, dignified care at end of life and the ability to have a peaceful and transcendent death. People are not able to have this experience at end of life without quality hospice/palliative care.

With 6300 deaths due to AIDS each day in Sub Saharan Africa alone, to ignore the need to fund better end of life care is really tragic and irresponsible.

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Contribution by Richard Hoff II



Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Posts: 1

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: Countries not meeting set targets( or level 3 indicators)

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In some Countries where the Global fund Have given Money for Program implemetation, Indicators that were set to achieve at the end of a given quarter is not been achieve. the fact is that the PRs some of whom are UN agency have a lot of Protocol which delays the disbursment of funds to SRs and even delay drugs and other life saving Materials which could have help save more lives.[/list][/i][/b]

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Contribution by Sammi Fredenburg



Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 3
Location: Seattle, Washington USA
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Countries not meeting set targets( or level 3 indicators

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I can understand the frustration in regards to the protocol which delays the life-saving actions that could be taking place, but i can also appreciate the accountability that protocol brings to the funds. As a relatively new program, it may take a while for the flow of accountability and communications to work as a well-oiled machine.

The Gates Foundation provided my son's junior high school with a million dollar grant for a groundbreaking educational model a few years back. It was studied extensively by the staff on campus for a year prior to launch. Yet the most difficult thing, especially in the first year, was accountability. The Gates Foundation not only brings their wallets to the table but also their brains when it comes to grants and funds. And demands accountability, wants to know the funding has been well spent! And I admire that. It will keep the funding from, as I understand in the past, redecorating presidential palaces.

I believe the Global Fund runs under the same premise. And as hard as it is to trust the processes, i feel that we must, and actually have no other alternatives.

Having said this, my heart beats as yours for the losses in the meantime.

Sammi Fredenburg
Seattle, Washington, USA

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Contribution by IMMANUEL EXPORT LIMITED

I am a pharmacist by profession in the UK and have my own company. I believe with my experience of practising in the UK, knowledge about diseases, the African market, information on where to get drugs at a reasonable rate, and network of pharmacists in various countries in Africa, we would be able to distribute funds across regions effectively if the global fund sub contracts to companies like mine based in the country. Also my company would travel to the countries to ensure the funds and aid is distributed to the respective places.

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Message by Pinaki Mukherjee:
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LPPrayas
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Question: What parts of the Global Fund’s financing model (including the rounds system and the Comprehensive Funding Policy) and the Global Fund’s architecture (including CCMs, PRs, LFAs and the TRP) might need to be examined to reduce transaction costs and improve coordination with global and local partners?

Introduction of myself and our Organization.

I am Pinaki Mukherjee, residing in Kolkata, India. I belong to a developing third world country. Basically I am a science graduate with specialization in physics. I also hold a post graduate diploma in management. My world of association is with a NGO, Lotus Park Prayas, here in after called LP Prayas. The objective behind my association is underlined in uplifting and pulling into the mainstream that section of my country who deserves to be alleviated above the poverty line. Under the current world scenario, I feel it is the duty of every educated individual to help in percolating the benefits of a modern environment to all sections of the society, specially to those who are lagging behind in the race. The motto of my organization i.e. LP Prayas to which I belong always adhere to the above sentiments. In fact, LP Prayas is following United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (1 to virtually to make poverty a historical word through Micro Enterprise Cluster Development Programme. Further more I am engaged in different project works in many a parts of my state which my NGO has taken-up time to time. I hope, I have described myself in a miniature format.

I am a member of an NGO since 1997; I am working as the secretary of our Organization. As such I am to look after all the different administrative jobs related function and duties of the organization.
I am also to carry upon my shoulder the task of preparing different projects schemes on behalf of our organization and also to adopt necessary steps for the proper implementation of those schemes.

I am also associated with different types of Micro-Enterprise Cluster Development Programmes (MECDP) that are being carried on in different region of West Bengal, India. My working experience in this field has clearly revealed all the connected inner problems of such jobs. Thus, as a matter of consequence, it transpires to me that, if a person is provided with the three basic needs –food, clothes and shelter, then a sustainable lively hood will build up that will make the people to turn towards primary and higher education. This will eventually ensure environmental sustainability leading to an all-round social development. My nearly a decade of experience in this field has induced me to believe that it is only the Micro-Enterprise Cluster Development Programmes (MECDP) that can set the right compass course for the people while making the UN Slogan “Make Poverty History” to be most significant.

Through our organization I am personally accustomed to work amongst the tribal people and the backward sections of the society. Apart from being economically backward and living below the poverty line, these people are bogged down into illiteracy mingled with superstitions. This makes our job all the more difficult to accomplish. To build up a sustainable future for these sections of the society, the first and foremost requirement is to make them self-supporting while, at the same time, spreading education among these people. But the main hurdle to achieve this goal is the altogether absence of any infrastructure for this purpose. It is, evidently, not possible for some individual efforts to build up the necessary infrastructure for the same.
In this context, I very much feel that it is only possible through Global Fund and our organization,LPPrayas, working with other organizations in a concerted manner. This will, I am sure, be able to provide the required infrastructure that will help those downtrodden to become self-supporting, self-reliant and literate. This will eventually ensure environmental sustainability for them, which is true to the spirit of “Make Poverty History” slogan of the UN. That might be reduce transaction costs and improve coordination with global and local partners.
Sincerely looking for an early positive response from your end.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Pinaki Mukherjee
Secretary
LPPrayas

lumisan1963 - Jan 24, 2006

Hello All

Greetings

I work with a Global Fund Project which is managed my Govt. There are challenges, but there are mechanisms in place to iron them out. I can also say that there is bad governance in the NGO/Private Sector's management of Donor funding. I know of at least 5 NGOs in my country (Guyana) which are in trouble with their ability to deliver on work plans and are not in a position to account for funds recieved.

This is a good forum Mr. Moderator. I congratulate you on this effort.

Thanks

N. Hussain
Georgetown
Guyana
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Message from Marion Quang

Joined: 07 Dec 2005
Posts: 1

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: Who is missing from this eForum discussion?

Who is missing from this discussion?

Everyone without web access is missing. Missing are almost all people from Myanmar/Burma where GF funds were cut off.

Why is there not a way to access this discussion through email? Other eForums have an email option ...

Marion Quang

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Moderator:

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: Thanks Marion; forum questions are sent through e-mail.


Thanks for your query Marion.

The forum questions are sent at least once every week via e-mail. Please inform all who cannot access this forum frequently to check their e-mail every Tuesday morning at the latest. Messages sent by 10.00am (GMT+1) the following Monday are considered as postings relevant to that past week's discussion topic. Kindly invite more of your colleagues to register to the forum, and provide their e-mail addresses. They could also send their e-mail addresses and names directly to: forum@theglobalfund.org.

Messages destined for this forum can be sent as reply e-mails to the Moderators. Thanks again for your query, and we look forward to more participation from Myanmar.

The eForum Moderating Team.


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Moderator's Message :

Thanks for your contribution, N. Husain.

Thank you all for your frank and highly valued contributions.

A point of discussion for all participants: How can the Global Fund help solve the challenges expressed in this forum e.g. project funds management , access to funds by targeted beneficiaries? How best can a financing mechanism facilitate project management with optimal results? In particular, do you think there are new or different roles that the Fund is in a unique position to play especially well in future (for example, because of its principles, its design, or its skills)? All your views are welcome.

If you are not familiar with how the Global Fund works, you are free to base your contributions on examples from other organizations whose operations you understand better. A background document on the Global Fund's strategy is available by clicking on the following link:

http://forum.theglobalfund.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=25


Thank you all once again for making this a lively debate. We look forward to more of your participation!

The eForum Moderation Team

spunnakari - Jan 24, 2006

Dear friends and moderator,
My name is Sumit Punnakari from Thailand. I am a new member of this e-forum and would like to make some points regarding to the Global Fund;
1. Migrant workers as well as the minorities are one of the most vulnerable populations, the funding available from the Global Fund through Raks Thai Foundation (Primary Recipient) then come to Stella Maris Seafarers Center Songkhla (Sub Recipient), enable us to work with these groups of people effectively.
2. The 5 years period of funding made very confortable for planning and continuity of the programme implementation. HIV/AIDS is a complex problem, we might not be able to overcome it overnight. Now, we're half of the way and I still believe that we doing well to solve the problem.
3. It's a pity that the Global Fund had to withdraw from Myanmanr (and I understand the reason very well), we now having more and more Burmese migrants who know very little about HIV/AIDS due to the lack of HIV/AIDS educational programme in Myanmar and they have to learn it here in Thailand. We have staffs who speak Burmese and Mon to train these people about HIV/AIDS, condom use and other related issues.
4. We're not working with only Burmese migrants but we also working with Cambodian migrants as well. Thanks to the Global Fund to make all of these happen and hope that we can continue to receive the support for the next 3 years.
PS. Thanks to the moderator for initiate this e-forum and thanks to all friends who read my posting.
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Sumit Punnakari
Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Migrant Workers in Thailand (PHAMIT Project)
Stella Maris Seafarers Center Songkhla

Sammi Fredenburg - Jan 22, 2006

i am extremely greatful to be part of such a diverse handful of people who have a heart for the same concerns that I do. I've been apprehensive to post as I fear I have more emotion than education when it comes to global health issues, yet my husband has encouraged me to bring my heart and what knowledge I do have to the table. I have a 26 year old "son" in Nigeria, a young man I met not too long ago who my husband found in a computer programmer's help forum, and upon inquiring from the broken English his whereabouts, put the two of us together. I have paused from my african studies for a moment to learn from a resident there what can be done and addressed. It has been a remarkable journey. The pharmacist here in our midst, Mr. Ayanbiola, made a statement that I appreciate and take issue with charlie, who desires so badly to come to the west. What can be done to make it desirable for the residents of africa to either stay and make a better homeland for themselves and their families, or to come long enough to the west to learn and then take their talent and gifts and occupations home? The obscene comfort of the west can be extremely addictive, yet not without stress and toll on the soul and body. He told me 20,000 Nigerian doctors are in America. I'm certain just a small ratio of that number are western doctors filling their positions in Nigerian homeland. Nearby in Niger, the ratio I understand is one physician for every 32,000 people. There has to be a way to make it desirable for the successful african to want to remain an african, not want to become an african american. As for the question about private sector's contribution to the war on extreme poverty. . . . . one does exist, tho it is quite new. Our former President Bill Clinton has developed an elite society of philanthropists as well as political and world leaders who will summit annually, pledging large amounts of dollars to individual projects worldwide, accountable at the year's end if they wish to be included in the summit and to continue the following year. You can link to clintonglobalinitiative.org to see what this is. Many who can give do, and many who can promote the causes and inspire the likes of folks like me do as well. Many of the projects are centered on the plight of extreme poverty. thank you for your time. It's a pleasure to correspond with you all. Sammi Fredenburg Seattle, Washington USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- Moderator's message: Thank you all (Sammi, Edward, Sylivia, The contributor from Kibera in Kenya, Zhang, Grace, Mercy, Onesmus, Ada, Rose, ...) for your very helpful contributions, which also served to warm up the discussion forum, accorded us the opportunity to introduce ourselves, and now promise a dynamic and even more creative online discussion forum in the coming weeks and months. Please rest assured that all your views will be taken into account while summarizing and presenting the week's discussion. In this forum, we discussed some successes and challenges that the Global Fund has experienced in our countries, and creatively suggested themes and issues that could be discussed in our next Forum: The Monthly Discussions. We are all free to continue the discussions in this forum. Sammi Fredenburg, Rose Joshi and Edward Abinyola began interesting discussions which provided good food for thought during future discussions. You are free to continue this discussion under one of our new topics this month: What roles could the Global Fund play in future? All your fluent contributions have smoothly led us into the first Partnership Forum theme : The Global Fund's Strategic Positioning : Beginning this week, the discussion point for this first theme picks up from your contributions : A. From your perspective, what is different or unique about the Global Fund’s role in comparison to that of other national and international funders involved in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria? In particular, what roles does the Fund play well and which does it play less well, in your experience? What value does, and could the Fund add to national and international efforts? You may either continue this discussion inside this forum, or answer it in our newly created discussion room at: http://forum.theglobalfund.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=23 We encourage you to invite more participants to join in our blossoming discussion and help build an even stronger Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Thanks again! The Global Fund eForum Moderators.

Zhang Mingrui - Jan 22, 2006

I am a boy from China.first of all.i wanna use Chinese to express my feeling about the global fund.我爱这个组织，因为它的公益性质，因为它充满了对人类的责任和对世界的爱。
And i wanna learn more in the forum.

but i am a Chinese.Although many chinese people are good at English.i don't think i can overcome this challenge.and i will try my best.

Onesmus - Jan 20, 2006

Hi everybody,

I am Onesmus from Kenya and a crusader for the disadvantaged and poor members of the society. I am happy to join this forum and hope to learn more from the members in this family. I too hope to contribute to the discussions of this forum. Being a member of another similar forum (the AIDS Comnpetence e-workspace) I hope to be comfortable in this sharing platform.
Working in one of the poorest districts in kenya, I have seen the diverstating hand of AIDS ravaging the poor lives of the helpless hungry women and children. At this point I will agree with one of the members of this forum who suggested that money should be chanelled not only through the government but also other agencies for effective utilisation and realisation of the much needed help.

For these few remarks, I hope this family welcomes me and look forward to a fruitfull year of learning and sharing.

Onesmus.
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Community Project Coordinator

Community Health department-Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya

Vanga Road

Aga Khan Hospital-Out patient wing (2nd floor)

P.o Box, 80100 83013 Mombasa-Kenya

email: mlewak@yahoo.co.uk

Mobile: +254722310654

mercyb@wwwplus.com - Jan 19, 2006

i am Mercy public health physician, and work on the CCM of the Ghana .
It is great to be able to have the opportunity to share experiences and concerns with peole committed to a common cause on line.

The developing world owes a lot to the GLobal Fund effort, making it possible for the needy PLWAs to access treament. None of the partners in the donor commitee is providing funding for ARTs except for the Global Fund.
Our Governments should be up and doing to finance the cost of ARTS as it is a life long committment for the infected which cannot depend indefinitely on hand outs. Accepted, it is a lot of money but this is the price of the pandemic, and we have to face reality and prioritse our budgets properly.

Thanks again to the processes of the global fund, Private-Public Partnerships have received a boost.
Hopefully we can jined hands and together make the world a better place

Edward O. Ayanbiola - Jan 19, 2006

First, let me thank the moderator for this forum. Second, I want to express my sincere thanks to the GATES FOUNDATION for all it has done in Africa. My name is Edward O. Ayanbiola, an African and I have lived in USA (Washington DC area) for over 30-years. I am a Pharmacist by profession. Our Company, PHRAMACY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT IN;(PMCI) has been involved in making US-manufactured pharmaceutical products available to all Africans. My question to GATES FOUNDATION is why they continue to neglect the Private Sectors to help Africans. As we all know, anything in which any government is involved is slow and inefficient, more so in all African countries. The Private Sector offers the BEST HOPE for Africans. Many of us, (US-trained African professionals) are prepared to return back to Africa to help our people. However, we lack the necessary fund to do so. Today all African countries lack the necessary infrastructure to deliver any meaningful medical products & services. The wealthy Africans travel to Europe for medical treatments & services. My advice to the GATES FOUNDATION is to set aside 10-15-percent of their annual contribution to help African professionals (in US) who want to return back to Africa to help Africans. Our company specialises in MALARIA, and our long time goal is to build a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company "inside" Africa. Don't give us the fish, but teach us how to fish and feed us for LIFE.
Thank you.
PMCI,
6006 Greenbelt Road,
Suite 334.
Greenbelt, MD 20770.
USA.


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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:29 am Post subject: Hi from Kathmandu, Nepal

Posted by rosejoshi. Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

Dear All,
Hi, Myself, I'm Rose Kumar Joshi, male, 30 from Kathmandu Nepal, renown internationally for its Himalayan mountains, birth place of the Buddha and fascinating culture, also remains one of the world’s poorest countries and disguises a significant vulnerability to the global impact of HIV and AIDS.
Nepal has been beset by an internal conflict since 1996 between the Government and the Maoist insurgents who presently control approximately 80% of Nepal. The conflict has significantly hampered Governments attempts to build infrastructure towards fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. For an example, the management of the Global Fund (to combat the spread of HIV, Malaria and TB) has been significantly thwarted by security issues that have consumed the Nepali Government. which causes Nepal failed for its fifth round proposal in GFTAM (So Sad)


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rosejoshi


Post subject: Should GFTAM ask MIT Media Lab 4

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Dear All,

It would be good to have such Media Lab with good enough and sufficient equipp around the world for affirmation with objective to people in the direction of education with new technology so this would be the opportunity for us to launch one of the GFTAM component for ever as in a defensive way to educate world's up coming generation about an epidemic scenario. The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop with a technology that could revolutionize with purposes how to educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created. The initiative was first announced Nicholas Negroponte, Lab chairman and co-founder, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. For more details http://laptop.media.mit.edu/


Should GFTAM work with MIT Media Lab 4 ?

If yes, what do you think GFTAM could ask MIT Media Lab 4 to do ?

To add HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Syllables ?
To add basic information about HIV and Sex ?
To add Treatment Literatures ?
To add drug and drug related harm ?

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Rose Joshi

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Posting by Grace Mulei, (forum Name: Mulei) Kenya Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject: Open E-Forum "My Responce on Challeges"

Title:Challeges Facing the Communities within HIV/AIDs Pandemic
My name is Grace Mulei from Kenya. I and youth groups,volunteer to support the orphans and also participate in Millennium Campaigns.

My new E=mail Address is kenyasaphanage@yahoo.co.uk

Firstly, it is my pleasure to applaud the founders of Global Fund, and compliment those who contribute to this worth while global mission.

I also take this opportunity to appreciate the Early Alert and Responses System (EARS)who promote this E-Forum to facilitate regional overview.

It is also appreciated that majority of the communities are now aware of the dangers contained in the behaviours that contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDs.

But the main challenges are realized when disaster such as Tsunami, Katrina, and severe drought and famine strikes.

These have a great impact on children and the elderly who are usually left behind to care for the orphans without resources.They are not extensively represented especially in the remote rural zones.

It would be useful to include Emergency Support for the families affected by HIV/AIDs.It is also crucial to establish Specific CCM for the Remote Rural Communities.Establishment of Specific CCM for Remote Rural &Disaster Communities,SCCM&DC including Research Programs.

Thank you very much.

Fair4All

Kenya.

SABINA - Jan 19, 2006

Hi Sammi,

First i introduce myself.
My name is Ada, from Ghana.
I so much share your passion for combarting HIV/AIDS especially amongst the children. You see it more painful because these kids are innocent of the pandemic, and at the end they suffer for it. The challenges we face mostly here in Africa is lcak of fund. Fund to be able to purchase the drugs(ARVs), place ourselves on good diet and good economic condition. And you know that with these tools, one can still live healthily even with the disease.

I stop here for now

cheers!!
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A resident of Kenya, and coordinator of a Kenyan organization for youth living with HIV/AIDS in the slums of Kibera in Nairobi sent the moderator the following message on Wed. 1/18/2006 at 3:03 PM

The contributor acknowledges that the Forum strengthens the capacity of the Fund to evaluate itself.

Successes: The contributor credits the Fund with playing a role in about 70% of the HIV/AIDS projects in Kenya, and advises against future stoppage of funding. The contributor lists the following as successes of the Global Fund:
- Reduction of HIV/AIDS infection rates
- The provision of affordable Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) by the government through the organization’s funding is helping to curb stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS since all People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) can live as healthy a life as any other people.

Challenges mentioned by the contributor:

- Most organizations originally funded are receiving funding during each round, while others are being neglected.
- Receiving funding, in the contributor’s opinion, depends on how well one is known by the funding agencies, such as the CCM.
- Majority of youth groups, which serve as Post- HIV Test clubs and support groups where HIV positive people meet, but lack the technical capacity to write proposals, are virtually shut out of the funding process.
- It is emerging that well recognized Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) stand a much better chance of receiving funding than Community Based Organizations (CBO)- who, in the contributor’s opinion, are better placed to reach communities and ensure effective outcomes.

The contributor asks what criteria the funding agencies use in selecting those groups that have been receiving funding during each round.
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Do what you can, when you can, where you can and how you can.
SEA

Jan 19, 2006

Hello Moderator,

Challenges

The monies need to be given directly to independent institutions and not the governent given its bureaucracies, corruption, poor accountability and politics......
Poor accountability and monitoring structures. At times the money is acquired through influence and technical know who.

Successes
Improved the standard of living of some beneficiaries
Gives hope and prolongs life that is in cases of medicines, mosquito nets and the like
Reduces social stigma


Related themes
The role of training institutions in capacity building in reducting HIV Counselling and Testing HCT.

Promotion of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and its benefits

Thank you.
Sylivia