Next Tuesday January 31st, zeGOgroup will be among the crowds, hosted by the European chapter of Friends of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the Pavillon Gabriel in Paris, gathered to celebrate the Fund's 10th Anniversary. An appropriate opportunity to pay tribute to an institution which in its decade of existence has indisputably become the symbol of a new public health paradigm in developing countries, but there will be a ghost at the feast, that of the recent resignation of the Fund's charismatic - and controversial – Executive Director, Michel Kazatchkine, made public earlier this week and already attracting widespread media attention.
The Global Fund delegation of communities living with or affected by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, via their Board Member, have just published the results of a study carried out with the Open Society Foundation to examine the effects of the Fund's new policy and strategy decisions on Civil Society program implementation and on the key affected populations.
