Issue # 9
July 26, 2004
Calí, Colombia

In this issue

US$ 968 Million Committed For New Global Fund Grants

Bangkok Conference:
Access to medication, leadership and no discrimination

Informative round

Bolivia signed an agreement with the Global Fund


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The eight Board meeting for the Global Fund

The Fund approved US$ 968 million
for new grants

Geneva, Global Fund.- The decision was taken during the Eight Board Meeting that took place in Geneva (Switzerland) last June.

Over the full five years the grants will put 932,000 people on antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS. They will also finance 123 million ACT anti-malarial treatments, 44 million impregnated bed nets and DOTS treatment for 640,000 new tuberculosis patients.

This is the fourth round of grant approvals since the Global Fund was established in 2002 and brings the total Global Fund two-year commitments for all four rounds of funding to $3 billion for 307 grants in 128 countries and two regions.

Official Global Fund sources reported on a press release that more than 85 percent of the money approved in this round will go to low-income countries. Nearly 70 percent will go to Africa, 48 percent will be for HIV/AIDS, while 40 percent will be spent on malaria.

“The Global Fund grants will make a considerable contribution to beating back the three epidemics of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria,” said Professor Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund. “For the Global Fund, these grants are only a start, but I believe they will begin to change the three pandemics. We expect to see a noticeable reduction in mortality in a few years, in particular from malaria.”

Global Fund money will save millions of lives and prevent disease in millions more,” said Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and Chair of the Global Fund Board. "We are working hard to ensure the Global Fund is sustainable and vital into the future so people living with AIDS and infectious diseases receive the life-saving care they need."

Download the document “Round 4-Approved Grants” (PDF format, 25 pages, 200 Kb) / Back to top

Zero-positives will have a vote on the Global Fund

Mexico City, NotieSe. – The decision to give a voice and a vote to those representing people living with HIV/AIDS was taken during the eight meeting of the Global Fund to Fight Against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which took place in Geneva (Switzerland) on June 28 – 30th.

Civil society organisms and Rodrigo Pascal, representative for the communities affected by HIV/AIDS, presented the request during the 7th meeting of the Fund, which took place last March.

Jorge Saavedra, General Director for the HIV/AIDS National center for Prevention and Control in Mexico (Censida) and a representative for Latin America for the Global Fund, explained that the initiative received immediate support from the region from the moment it was presented as a proposal, although it was not possible to take it to vote during that time./ Back to top

*Edited report from statements made by elmundosalud.com, Netherlands Radio
and the reports sent from Bangkok by the magazine “In-detectable”.

Santiago de Cali, RedLa+.- Access to treatment and medications, the need for leadership and to fight against the discrimination stigma, were the main topics discussed in the event that gathered more than 17 million people from 160 countries during the six days of the XV International Aids conference in Bangkok (Thailand).

Under the slogan “Access for all”, the event ended July 16th with a donation of 42 million Euros from the European Union and a statement that proposes an ideal strategy to widen treatment coverage. More information >>> / Back to top

The conference in numbers

- 17 million Dollars were invested

- 17 million people participated, of which 9,827 paid, 776 people had courtesy passes, 750 were young adults and students, 2,710 were from different communication media, and 2,939 were scholarship holders

Bolivia signed an agreement with the Global Fund

La Paz (Bolivia), RedLa+.- Last June, an agreement was signed for Bolivia’s three components of its proposal to the Global Fund.

The event that took place at the offices of the World Health Organization in La Paz was attended by all the members of the Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM), the Manager for the Global Fund in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Richard Lacort and Health Minister, Fernando Antezana Aranibar.

Bolivia’s proposal for the Global Fund was approved last year during the third round, and starting next July 26th, the South American country will receive a total of US$ 14’500,000.; of which six million will be assigned to the HIV/AIDS component, 2.5 million to fight tuberculosis and the remaining six million for malaria.

In addition, the Bolivian CCM received 200,000 Euros to strengthen its efforts on behalf of the Backup initiative. / Back to top