Jorge Saavedra

Global Fund Must Expand Its Mandate to Other Pandemics, Says AHF

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Monday, May 17, 2021

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.

Key Points: 
  • 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.

AHF: Lancet Paper Makes the Case for a Global Public Health Convention

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Thursday, May 6, 2021

b'AIDS Healthcare Foundation ( AHF ), the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, marked today the publication of a peer-reviewed research article titled \xe2\x80\x9cA Global Public Health Convention for the 21st Century\xe2\x80\x9d in the prestigious Lancet Public Health journal.\nThe paper presents 10 recommendations aimed at transforming the global health system so that it can become more transparent, accountable, and cooperative when responding to international health emergencies like COVID-19.

Key Points: 
  • b'AIDS Healthcare Foundation ( AHF ), the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, marked today the publication of a peer-reviewed research article titled \xe2\x80\x9cA Global Public Health Convention for the 21st Century\xe2\x80\x9d in the prestigious Lancet Public Health journal.\nThe paper presents 10 recommendations aimed at transforming the global health system so that it can become more transparent, accountable, and cooperative when responding to international health emergencies like COVID-19.
  • To achieve these goals, the article calls for the ratification of a new convention or treaty on global public health.
  • Full text of the published study is freely available here via The Lancet website.\nThe study was co-authored by 21 global public health thinkers, including AHF President Michael Weinstein and Dr. Jorge Saavedra, Executive Director of the AHF Global Public Health Institute at the University of Miami.
  • The study was conducted by the University of Miami with financial support from AHF.\n\xe2\x80\x9cAHF has been sounding the alarm on the poor state of global public health emergency preparedness and calling for a Global Public Health Convention since 2015.

AHF Lauds Continued Congressional Support for Fighting Global AIDS

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) applauds the U.S. Congress for maintaining its contribution to the U.S. Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria while increasing funding for the U.S. domestic HIV response.

Key Points: 
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) applauds the U.S. Congress for maintaining its contribution to the U.S. Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria while increasing funding for the U.S. domestic HIV response.
  • Congress has given the global and domestic HIV response a ringing endorsement with this renewed investment in the fight to end the AIDS epidemic, said Michael Weinstein.
  • PEPFAR and the Global Fund are the best means we have to end one of the deadliest epidemics the world has ever known, said Terri Ford, AHF Chief of Global Advocacy and Policy.
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 1.2 million people in 43 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe.