Aidspan: Global Fund Observer
Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 345 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter includes pieces on various topics, including an article on the Global Fund Board approval of another $28 million in grants from the 2017-2019 allocations; an interview with the Global Fund’s former director of external relations on the history of the Fund’s resource mobilization efforts, its successes and challenges, and the establishment of the Global Fund replenishment; and a press release highlighting a letter written by a bipartisan group of 18 U.S. senators to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the administration to increase the U.S. pledge to the Global Fund for 2020-2022.