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The Star: Fund to fight disease open for business again

11 May 2012

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HIV activists marching to the US Consulate in Sandton. Photo: MSF

THE GLOBAL Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that more than $1.6 billion (R12.7bn) in additional funding will be available in the next two years. ..."It's very good news that the Global Fund is reopening for business. Now we can stop wasting time, which is the most precious resource in this fight against HIV, TB and malaria, because wasting time is wasting lives. The new funding window at the Global Fund needs to be opened as soon as possible, be as big as possible, and be open to all affected countries to support treatment scale up. Now is not the time to be conservative and keep money in the bank that could go toward getting life-saving pills into people's bodies," said Sharonann Lynch, the HIV/...

Global Funding Rally

22 March 2012

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With a US$2billion funding shortfall the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – the world’s largest funder of HIV and tuberculosis programmes – faces a crisis along with the nations heavily dependent on its support. On March 22 a group of 1,000 health activists marched on the US Consulate in Sandton, Johannesburg, to demand that the US, the UK and Australia lead the way for an Emergency Donor Conference as an urgent response to plug the funding deficit . The Global Fund last year had to cancel a funding grant round because its international donors did not contribute enough, despite pledges to do so. MSF has highlighted how these funding cuts will impact many southern African countries...

Medical Chronicle: Dwindling Foreign Funding Opening up New Opportunities for Healthcare in Africa

01 April 2012

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Dr Unni Karunakara examining a child at an IDP camp in downtown Mogadishu. Photo: MSF

The huge impact of the global financial crisis on the availability of international aid and donor funding is forcing African governments and private providers to come up with innovative, collaborative and sustainable solutions to ensure that the impressive gains in healthcare over the past decade are not jeopardised. How this can be achieved in the context of the continent's huge disease burden and lack of resources was the main focus of the recent Healthcare in Africa summit hosted by The Economist in Cape Town... Dr Unni Karunakara, international president of Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF), said the organisation was already seeing the on-the-ground effect of the funding crisis on HIV, TB and malaria programmes. "Donor...

Sandton Chronicle: Appeal for world's help in fighting epidemics

30 March 2012

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22 March 2012 over a thousand health activists took to the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa to protest the recent global funds cuts. Photo: MSF

A CROWD of protestors gathered outside the American Consulate to appeal for more international funding in fighting HIV, tuberculosis and malaria... The protest was organised by the Aids and Rights Alliance of South Africa, Doctors Without Borders, Section 27, He-Tic, World Aids Campaign, Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum and Cosatu... Read full article below.

Pretoria News: Bad news for Africa as fund to fights Aids is plugged up

29 March 2012

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22 March 2012, over a thousand health activists took to the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa to protest the recent global funds cuts. Photo:MSF

THE WORLD is losing ground in its efforts to improve the treatment of Aids and tuberculosis victims because of a $23 billion (R17bn) global health fund's termination of new grants, the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Tuesday... "New treatments for patients have been put on hold," said MSF general director Bruno Jochum, whose group has been providing antiretroviral HIV treatment. "In some cases, treatment clinics have simply been shut down."... Read full article below.

1,000 HIV activists take to JHB streets for US$2 billion needed to save millions of lives

22 March 2012

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US, UK & Australia have to maintain Global Fund support to avert crisis JOHANNESBURG, 22 March –Today over 1,000 southern African activists from a coalition of organisations take to the streets of Johannesburg in a march to demand key international donors lead an urgent response to plug a US$2 billion treatment funding gap, so that countries across Africa can scale up their HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria programmes and avert countless unnecessary deaths. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria faces this dangerous funding shortfall of more than US$2bn because donors did not contribute enough at the Global Fund replenishment conferences...

'Losing Ground': How Global Fund Shortages and PEPFAR cuts are jeopardising the fight against HIV and TB

21 March 2012

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A monk holds his ART medication at the MSF Tharketa clinic, Myanmar. Photograph: Greg Constantine

'Losing Ground' focuses on the impact of the cancelation of Global Fund Round 11 on HIV and TB treatment programs in the countries where MSF runs HIV/Aids activities. This MSF issue brief was developed from answers to questionnaires sent to all MSF HIV and TB projects around the world, and was developed by MSF's Access Campaign and Advocacy and Analysis Unit (AAU).

Global Fund cuts spell more AIDS deaths, more HIV infections, & rationing lifesaving treatment

25 November 2011

South Africa’s Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum warns *NOTE: The Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum [BEMF] is a group of civil society organisations concerned with HIV/AIDS funding in South Africa and the Southern African region. BEMF includes SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières South Africa, the Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa, the Free State AIDS Coalition and World Vision. JOHANNESBURG –The shock announcement by the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria that financial shortfalls forced the cancellation of its Round 11 of new grants threatens to run back the clock on the gains made in the fight against HIV. The Global Fund financial...

85% of AIDS patients deprived of treatment in DRC

25 January 2012

Kinshasa – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is alarmed by the situation of HIV/AIDS patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the lack of priority given by the Congolese authorities and the withdrawal of donors, all occurring as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on 28 January. The conditions surrounding access to care for people living with HIV/AIDS in DRC are horrific. At the Centre Hospitalier de Kabinda (CHK) in Kinshasa, MSF has observed an excessively high number of patients arriving with serious complications resulting from lack of treatment. Their advanced illness creates unacceptable suffering. "I...

Stop Deaths, Not Funding

19 December 2011

Description/Caption 23-year-old Nako Kakala in the paediatric ward of Niangara hospital with her 1-year-old son Samuel. He is undergoing treatment for malaria.

In the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, we should be dealing a knock-out blow. The Global Fund must call an emergency donor conference so countries can reverse these killer epidemics. Dr. Unni Karunakara is international president of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an independent medical humanitarian organisation that works in more than 60 countries. In 2010, MSF provided HIV treatment to more than 180,000 people in nearly 20 countries, tuberculosis treatment to 30,000 patients, and malaria treatment to 1.6 million. 23-year-old Nako Kakala in the paediatric ward of Niangara hospital with her 1-year-old son Samuel. He is undergoing treatment for malaria...

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