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...

OLAITAN IBIYEMI - Apr 04, 2006 If one has to be sincere, the Global Fund activities in Nigeria is not manifesting on the lives of the people in any way. I want to believe that the grant is going to the pocket of some few individuals who sit atop Global Fund activities in Nigeria. Just as the activities...

Jan 26, 2006 Theme: The Global Fund’s successes, challenges and suggested topics Background: The first week’s contributors to the online discussion forum represented all regions except Latin America: They also represented various sectors, different structural relationships with the Global Fund, and demonstrated...

toshniwalm - Feb 07, 2006 The Global Fund needs to be strengthened in terms of long term support for all the activities being carried out. Secondly the Global Fund should be kept away from politics or discrimination or any personal agenda of any of the donor members or countries. Thirdly the Global Fund...

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...

ccmindo - Apr 11, 2006 Views of Indonesia CCM and Technical Working Group Members Remy Rohadian – AusAID Indonesia In order to survive, GFATM might need to review the way they do business (eg from centralised to decentralised); improve M&E systems and implementation; inform the donors about the consequences...

LOMBARDI - Apr 12, 2006 Nowadays, it is almost impossible to separate endemic diseases control results from the performance of the health system as a whole. Nevertheless, I think that the GF funding component should be separate (answer a.) also including health systems research, due to local/regional...

Apr 11, 2006 Message from Mark McPherson: , UK I realise I do not post comments on here normally but thought the question asked on this occasion was an important one that seems to be missed a lot. I was in Brazil recently and talked to a number of people about the healthcare system. They were very proud...

SABINA - Apr 04, 2006 Personally I think I buy the contribution of "Indra" above. When the initial funding was released, it was meant to achieve a particular set milestone. Now to help make conclusions on whether to release the 2nd phase will depend on the tracking of the activities that the...