Global Fund Must Expand Its Mandate to Other Pandemics, Says AHF
b'The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) should expand its mandate to include emergency funding for other infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics like COVID-19.
- b'The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) should expand its mandate to include emergency funding for other infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics like COVID-19.
- We are not saying the Global Fund should abandon AIDS, TB, and malaria \xe2\x80\x93 quite the contrary.
- Let\xe2\x80\x99s leverage its inclusivity of civil society, programmatic and technical know-how, and the trust of its donors to protect global public health from ongoing and future pandemics,\xe2\x80\x9d said AHF President Michael Weinstein.
- Jorge Saavedra, Executive Director of the AHF Global Public Health Institute at the University of Miami, is a former head of the National AIDS Program of Mexico.