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September 16, 2019
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria—a pioneer in global health since 2002—has helped combat preventable diseases throughout the world. But this work is far from finished. In 2018, 40 percent of people living with HIV did not have access to treatment. TB incidence has ...
CGD NOTES
May 01, 2019
As low- and middle-income countries shift away from donor support, their challenge will be finding a way to aggregate demand in order to achieve the benefits that the pooled purchasing arrangements of vertical health programs now provide. As a first step in tackling this challenge, much can be learn...
Blog Post
December 15, 2015
Those who follow CGD will be familiar with our branded meme: “Cash on Delivery” aid, or COD. Many are enthusiastic about COD’s potential to revolutionize aid effectiveness. Yet within some global development organizations, leadership and staff alike express common concerns: is...
Blog Post
November 27, 2013
Last year, PEPFAR submitted guidelines which encouraged country staff to submit a proposal to conduct an “impact evaluation” (IE) as part of their annual Country Operation Plan (COP). Subsequently, they received four submissions, of which three were funded. But they...
Blog Post
November 27, 2013
Earlier this month, Ambassador Goosby officially announced that he was stepping down from his role as Global AIDS Coordinator where he led the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief for the past four years. As my colleague Amanda blogged in anticipation of Dr. Goosby’s departur...
Blog Post
November 26, 2013
It’s one thing to measure the quality of AIDS care; it’s another to understand how to improve it. Our last blog showed how the metaphor of the “treatment cascade” can be a useful way to conceptualize and measure the quality of AIDS care and that PEPFAR supported care ha...
Blog Post
October 29, 2013
Counting the number of patients on treatment is no longer enough. For years even the friendliest critics of the global struggle against AIDS have pointed out that this metric unfairly neglects the people who are not put on treatment and then die, largely because their deaths are uncounted exce...
Press Release
September 17, 2013
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria disburses more than a billion dollars a year and has likely saved millions of lives-but it could
save many more lives and avert untold suffering by re-structuring its activities to get more health for the money, according to a new report ...
Blog Post
February 25, 2013
The Institute of Medicine, the prestigious health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has weighed in with a massive report on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the multibillion dollar US effort to confront the epidemic in the developing world. The evaluation validates PEP...