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...

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...

Kurt Frieder - Jan 24, 2006 From my point of view, the most strategic value that the Global Fund adds to all other efforts confronting the epidemic is that it was created with a great international consensus with the specific purpose of financing national efforts that have a broad coverage from assistance...

Feb 02, 2006 Theme: The Global Fund’s Strategic Positioning; The Fund’s unique roles and participants’ opinions on its performance The second and third week’s discussions focused on the Fund’s strategic positioning: it’s unique or different roles in comparison to those played by other organizations funding...

Apr 19, 2006 Online Discussion Summary and Lead Contributors: April 10-17. Question: What is the most appropriate approach for the Global Fund to be involved in supporting health systems strengthening? (a) To have a separate “health systems strengthening” funding component (as currently done for AIDS...

Tshabalala - Apr 10, 2006 Institutional Governance in the area of human resource management, procurement systems and priority-setting as a platform for effectiveness; presents itself as one of the entry points for the Global Fund with respect to the strengthening of health systems. Capacity to manage...

Mar 12, 2006 At its founding, it was expected by some that the Global Fund would take active steps to exert a positive effect on the markets for essential health products in order to achieve lower prices and more sustainable supply. To date, despite the Global Fund having a number of particular features...