By Shen Tingting
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria launched its new funding model on February 28. One of the goals of the new funding model is to reflect the Global Fund’s strategic objective to protect and promote human rights by “integrating human rights considerations throughout the grant cycle” and “increasing investments in programs that address human-rights related barriers to access.” During the year-long transition phase to the new funding model, the Global Fund will encourage applicants to include at least one human rights intervention in their requests for support. These interventions should be identified and designed by each country through dialogue with key affected populations, people living with the three diseases, and civil society. The following links are to two information notes that the Global Fund recently issued on HIV, TB and human rights, as well as a news release on the new funding model.
[HIV AND HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMATION NOTE]
