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As of 1 July 2002, this project is no longer run or housed at CID |
The Access Project for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
The Access Project for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was launched at the Center for International Development at Harvard University in January 2002. With a grant provided by the Glaser Foundation, the Access Project seeks to aid countries, NGOs, not-for-profits, and coalitions which wish to access the new Global Fund. The Access Project will provide information, encouragement, technical advice, and networking with other experts (in the U.S. and abroad), in support of teams in developing countries.
The purpose of the Global Fund is to attract, manage and disburse additional resources through a new public-private partnership that will make a sustainable and significant contribution to the reduction of infections, illness and death, thereby mitigating the impact caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in countries in need, and contributing to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development goals. The Global Fund currently intends to disburse $700 million in 2002 and has a total of $1.9 billion in donor-committed funds. Fund disbursement begins the end of April 2002.
The Access Project for the Global Fund has no official ties to the Global Fund but does coordinate its activities with a range of organizations and agencies that are interested in the Global Fund's success. The Access Project has the following goals:
In order to accomplish these goals, the Access Project works with several groups at Harvard that specialize in AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. For AIDS-related issues, the main groups are led by Dr. Bruce Walker from the Partners AIDS Research Center at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and by Drs. Max Essex and Ric Marlink from the Harvard AIDS Institute. For malaria the team is led by Dr. Andrew Spielman at the Harvard School of Public Health. For tuberculosis, the Access Project collaborates with Drs. Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Serena Koenig from Harvard Medical School and Partners in Health. Dr. Josh Ruxin heads a team with representatives from all of these groups.
Proposals to the Global Fund
In the interest of ensuring complete transparency in the proposal process,
we are posting country proposals on our site. To date, the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has not indicated whether it would post
country proposals in the future. We feel strongly that it should and are
doing so with the agreement of Country Coordinating Mechanisms. Until the
GFATM decides to post all proposals on its site, we will in the spirit of
partnership and to emphasize that the GFATM should be funding country
proposals based on their quality, not on the amount of funds available. If
there is a scarcity of funds, which seems increasingly likely, then the
response must be to increase the funds, not force competition among
excellent proposals for scarce resources. Our purpose is three-fold:
Proposals to Date:
Government of Malawi
The Nigerian Country Coordinating Mechanism
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Last revised 11/01/2007