African Council of AIDS Service Organizations

Sony Corporation and the Global Fund have entered into a partnership for the implementation of behaviour change projects, in which Sony provides state of the art equipment and movies, and the Global Fund ensures that they are provided to agencies best able to reach communities most in need.

Report touches on several issues related to the OIG

Sub-committee says that imposing more and more requirements on implementers may cause some of them to "walk away"

Is it worth trying to recover "losses" from "ineligible" and "undocumented" expenditures - as identified by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) - from grants in the early rounds of funding, considering that these losses occurred some time ago, and the fact that, at the time, the Global Fund and the implementers were in "emergency mode"?

Ten country audits, eight diagnostic reviews planned for 2012

The Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has conducted an investigation into actions of a fund portfolio manager (FPM) in the Global Fund Secretariat, and has concluded that some allegations against the FPM have merit. This information is contained in the OIG's progress report for the period April-October 2011.

The Board made an important decision at its 25th Board Meeting on 22 November 2011 relating to Round 11 proposals, Second Wave of National Strategy Applications (NSA) and funding requests through the Health Systems Funding Platform (HSFP) (GF/B25/DP16 (PDF - 216 KB)). 

At its meeting in December 2010, the Global Fund Board approved the launching of Round 11. At its meeting in May 2011, the Board discussed but did not change this decision. Therefore, in August 2011, Round 11 was launched, and many CCMs devoted enormous amounts of work to preparing their proposals. Then last month, in November 2011, the Board cancelled Round 11.

Addis Ababa, December 06, 2011 - More women involved in high level decisions concerning HIV/AIDS in Africa, restoration of the Global Fund by donor countries who have backed out of their commitments and fewer excuses by donor countries for lack of funding.

Those were the main points of the passionate speech given by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, at the plenary session on the second conference day of the 2011 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA).

The cancellation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria of all new programming until 2014 is unacceptable. This decision will cost lives and cripple international efforts to deliver on health-related goals, breaking promises made to some of the world’s most vulnerable people, and punishing the Global Fund's success of the last ten years.

People living with HIV and their supporters, as well as communities affected by TB or malaria, are extremely concerned about the damage under-funding of the Global Fund is causing. We therefore demand that: 

As we mark 30 years of AIDS, let’s be inspired by the early days of AIDS activism. AIDS has proven to be much more than an epidemic—it is a movement that has inspired people across the world. This movement is more important now than ever. The beginning of the end of AIDS is now in sight – we must get to Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination, Zero AIDS-related deaths. It is our shared vision and our shared responsibility, in memory of the millions who died of AIDS but also for future generations.

Choose your action – make it happen!

World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1 each year around the world. It has become one of the most recognised international health days and a key opportunity to raise awareness, commemorate those who have passed on, and celebrate victories such as increased access to treatment and prevention services.

UNAIDS took the lead on World AIDS Day campaigning from its creation until 2004. From 2004 onwards the World AIDS Campaign’s Global Steering Committee began selecting a theme for World AIDS Day in consultation with civil society, organisations and government agencies involved in the AIDS response.

Themes run for one or two years and are not just specific to World AIDS Day. Campaigning slogans such as ‘Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise’ have been used year round to hold governments accountable for their HIV and AIDS related commitments.