OF NOTE THIS WEEK
Last week, President Obama announced his Global Health Initiative, a plan to spend $63 billion dollars over the next six years on global health, including PEPFAR. While the Initiative suggests a move towards a more comprehensive global health strategy, activists were quick to express disappointment that the plan adds new priorities without new money, and they called for the release of a more detailed budget.
Also, CGD is moving! Our newsletter is going out a day early this week to accommodate our big move to 1800 Massachusetts Avenue. But that’s not all that’s new with the HIV/AIDS Monitor! Look out for next week’s newsletter where we will introduce you to our newly renovated website as well as a brand new web tool. Now you can track evidence-based recommendations from the HIV/AIDS Monitor to PEPFAR, the Global Fund and the World Bank to improve their design, delivery and management of aid for HIV/AIDS and see how the donors are responding to our recommendations.
NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONORS
- The Board of the Global Fund holds its 19th meeting in Switzerland
OTHER NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
- Qualified Plaudit for Global Fund (Financial Times)
- Zambia Gets $174M Donor Funds for Economy, AIDS (Reuters)
- Donors Stop Funding Uganda AIDS Commission (Daily Monitor)
- Op-Ed: PEPFAR's Challenge (Wash. Post)
- Africa Must Manufacture Own AIDS Drugs (Reuters)
- Africa Scrambles to Prevent Arrival of Swine Flu (AP/S.F. Chronicle)
- The Kaiser Family Foundation releases a new survey about the U.S. role in global health