The American Foundation for AIDS Research’s TREAT Asia features an interview with Shiba Phurailatpam, director of the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+).
[COMMENTARY] To Fix the Global Fund, Get Funds to the Grassroots
By Sara L.M. Davis
In his recent New York Times op-ed, Paul Farmer calls for increased funding for
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He’s right, but to
really put muscle into the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Global Fund also needs
to change its top-down approach to funding, given the reality that HIV/AIDS
specifically targets the most marginalized people in any society.
