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Global Fund: Contributions to the Global Health Workforce

Global Fund: Contributions to the Global Health Workforce. Results achieved. As of November 2011: $22.6 billion to 150 countries to support large scale prevention, treatment and care programs In 2011 : 3.3 million people received antiretroviral treatment

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Global Fund: Contributions to the Global Health Workforce

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  1. Global Fund: Contributions to the Global Health Workforce Irish Forum for Global Health Conference

  2. Results achieved As of November 2011: • $22.6 billion to 150 countries to support large scale prevention, treatment and care programs In 2011: • 3.3 million people received antiretroviral treatment • 8.6 million tuberculosis cases were treated • 230 million insecticide-treated nets were distributed to prevent malaria

  3. Founding Principles • Operate as a financial instrument, not an implementing entity. • Make available and leverage additional financial resources. • Support programs that evolve from national plans and priorities. • Operate in a balanced manner in terms of different regions, diseases and interventions. • Pursue an integrated and balanced approach to prevention and treatment. • Evaluate proposals through independent review processes. • Operate with transparency and accountability

  4. Human Resources is a Major Constraint in Achieving Objectives of GF supported Programs: Principal Recipients'

  5. Community Systems Strengthening • The CSS Framework: • Developed in 2010, revised in 2011 • Intended to help countries include funding for community organizations, health staff at the community level and their activities in country proposals • Promotes a common understanding of how best to strengthen community systems and contribute to key national goals, to ensure that people’s rights to health are realized • Defines: • Core Components of a functional community system • Service Delivery Areas (SDA) • Indicators for measuring performance in CSS • Inter-linkages between community and (public) health systems

  6. Global Fund: Contributions to the Global Health Workforce • As of end of 2010, 25% of the consolidated expenditure of GF grants has been on supporting health workforce in countries

  7. Global Fund support to the Global Health Workforce: Ethiopia • Under the country’s Health Extension Program (HEP), through Global Fund support, over thirty thousand Health Extension Workers (HEWs) have been trained and deployed in the health services, between 2004 and 2009.

  8. Global Fund support to the Global Health Workforce: Rwanda • The Round 5 grant supported the establishment of a community-based social insurance to cover PLWHA, indigents, and orphans. The scheme dramatically improved the financial access of the poor to health care and dramatically increased health service utilization.

  9. Q & A

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