Twenty-Second RBM Board Meeting
16-18 May 2012, SWITZERLAND, Geneva/Lausanne: - At its 22nd Meeting, starting in Lausanne today, the RBM Board will consider three main issues. First, the Board will deliberate over strategies for insuring uninterrupted flow of subsidized antimalarials to countries participating in the Affordable Medicines for Malaria initiative (AMfM). Second, the Board will review the implementation plan of the resource mobilization strategy for the Global Malaria Action Plan and identify priority actions for 2013 and beyond. Finally, a new RBM Executive Director is expected to be selected. A back-to-back ministerial session, to be held on 18 May, will gather 40 ministers of malaria-endemic countries in Geneva to address identification of funding for ongoing malaria control interventions in Africa.
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Swiss Malaria Group's exhibit on malaria at the Natural History Museum in Geneva
15 May, SWITZERLAND, Geneva: -RBM Partnership Board member Minister of Health for Namibia, Dr Richard N Kamwi, joined Swiss Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Didier Burkhalter and RBM Partnership Executive Director a.i., Dr Thomas Teuscher at the opening of the Swiss Malaria Group's exhibit on malaria at the Natural History Museum in Geneva. Discussion during the event focused on the importance of sustaining the gains in malaria control.
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Global Fund Forecasts $1.6 billion in Available Funds for 2012-2014
Major Shift Reflects Strategic Choices by Board, Renewed Confidence
10 May, SWITZERLAND, Geneva: - A new financial forecast by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria estimates that more than $1.6 billion in additional funding will be available in the 2012-14 period for investment in projects that save lives.
The new forecast is a result of strategic decisions made by the Board during its 26th meeting that started today. The funding will be invested in countries where demand is most pressing and a plan will be adopted to transform the Global Fund as to create multiple positive effects, including improved financial supervision and overall efficiency.
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