News Archive

March 10, 2011

Dear Colleagues,

The Center for Global Development’s HIV/AIDS Monitor is wrapping up after four years of research and analysis on the major HIV/AIDS donors. This is our last HIV/AIDS Monitor e-newsletter, but I will continue to report on the HIV/AIDS donors through the Center’s Global Health Policy blog. In addition, I will share ongoing analyses and news about these donors in a new monthly Global Health Policy Update from our global health team.

As I look to the next steps for CGD’s HIV/AIDS and global health work, I want to thank you for your readership and regular feedback on the HIV/AIDS Monitor. The program was designed to improve the performance of three HIV/AIDS donor programs--the U.S. government’s PEPFAR, the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP)--by examining key issues in their design and approach, and providing timely analyses to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of each initiative.

I am delighted that our country-based reports on the HIV/AIDS programs, produced in collaboration with partners on the ground in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia, provided evidence-based policy recommendations to the top donors to improve performance. Among the HIV/AIDS Monitor’s recommendations now reflected in donor strategies and actions are:

• PEPFAR should make host governments a truer partner in programs and to focus on health systems.  PEPFAR’s Five Year Strategy and the new U.S. Global Health Initiative stress a transition to country ownership and strengthening health systems through a coordinated, whole-of-government approach.
• The World Bank Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) should focus on improving health information systems. The World Bank’s Agenda for Action subsequently incorporated a focus on building governments’ financial management capacity.
• The Global Fund should change its reporting requirements for recipients from every 3 months to every 6 months. The Global Fund adopted this recommendation from the HIV/AIDS Monitor report on performance-based funding.

The success of the HIV/AIDS Monitor is in large part due to your interest and help informing and sharing our research. Together with my CGD colleagues, I will continue to track ongoing policy changes related to the HIV/AIDS Monitor team’s findings.

Thank you again for your readership and I hope you will continue to follow our work through the new Global Health Policy Update.  



All the best,




Nandini Oomman

Director, HIV/AIDS Monitor, and Senior Program Associate