Africa: Don’t Compromise Your Principles in the New Funding Model, Global Fund Told
Global Fund Observer (Nairobi) Africa: Don't Compromise Your Principles in the New Funding Model, Global Fund Told 3 August 2012 press release At the International AIDS Conference, protestors disrupted the start of a session on the Global Fund in order to deliver a message that the Fund's new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from countries. The protestors asked some of the panellists to sign a pledge along these lines. Global Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo was one of the signatories. The Global Fund's new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from individual countries. This was the message delivered by a group of activists on 26 July at a session on the Global Fund at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. The Global Fund is in the process of designing a new model to replace the