Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM):

Resource Page for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

- GFATM Overview
- Proposal Design
- Implementation Issues
- Lessons Learned
- AIDS, TB & Malaria: Key Issues
- Country Experiences
- Meeting Documentation
- Situation Analysis
- GFATM Board Meeting
- Press Releases

Contact Person

HIV/AIDS Calendar

Related Links

GFATM Overview

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) is an independent public-private partnership working to increase funding to fight these three diseases in countries with the greatest need and contribute to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development Goals. The Fund will support efforts in prevention, treatment, care and support of the infected and directly affected that complement existing programs and/or activities.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, several institutions are working together to support the submission of successful proposals for the GFATM. This page reflects a coordinated effort of PAHO/WHO, UNAIDS and the LAC representative to the GFATM board (Brazil) to share information about this process. It also has the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Proposal Design

• PAHO Comments on the New Guidelines: Washington, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, 139 KB)
• Brazilian Comments on the New Guidelines: Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, 104 KB)

Implementation Issues

• PAHO Policy in the Procurement of Pharmaceutical Products for Projects Financed by the GFATM: December 2003 (PDF, 50 KB)
• Política de la OPS en las Adquisiciones de los Productos Farmacéuticos para Proyectos Financiados por el GFATM: December 2003 (Spanish, PDF, 56 KB)
• Letter from the GFATM about LFA and PR Selection: 3 September 2002 (PDF, 37 KB)
• Local Fiduciary Arrangements: Guidelines for New Applicants (new version): GFATM, 18 June 2002 (PDF, 59 KB)

Lessons Learned (1^st Round)

• Government of Brazil: Washington, 18 June 2002 (PowerPoint, 156 KB)
• PAHO/WHO Lessons Learned (GFATM-LAC): Washington, DC, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, Spanish only, 296 KB)
• UNAIDS II: Washington, 18 June 2002 (PowerPoint, Spanish only, different from one below, 113 KB)
• UNAIDS: 5 June 2002 (PowerPoint, 147 KB)
• WHO Presentation (GFATM-LAC): Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002 (PowerPoint, 48 KB)
• NGOs in Developing Countries (GFATM-LAC): Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, Spanish only, 115 KB)
• ICASO Global Fund Update (PDF, via ICASO site):
    2003:   English   |   français   |   español
    2002:   English   |   français

AIDS, TB & Malaria: Key Issues

• PAHO/WHO AIDS Presentation: Washington, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, 130 KB)
• PAHO/WHO TB Presentation: Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002
  (MS PowerPoint, Spanish only, 582 KB)
• PAHO/WHO Malaria Presentation: Washington, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, Spanish only, 322 KB)

Country Experiences (reverse chronological order)

• CARICOM presentation on Caribbean: Washington, DC, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, 36 KB)
• Haiti II (different from one below): PAHO, Washington, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, 53 KB)
• Honduras: PAHO, Washington, DC, 18 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, Spanish only, 391 KB)
• Argentina: UNAIDS, Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, Spanish only, 771 KB)
• Chile: Chilean CCM, Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, Spanish only, 912 KB)
• Guatemala: OASIS, Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002 (PowerPoint, 76 KB)
• Haitian Presentation, Ministry of Health: Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 2002
  (PowerPoint, 1450 KB)

Meeting Documentation

• Recommendations from the South East Asia Meeting: Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-24 July 2002
• Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Meeting to Review Country Experiences with the Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)—Summary Meeting Report: Rio de Janeiro, 5–6 June 2002 (PDF, 31 KB)

Situation Analysis

Meeting of the GFATM Board

5^th Meeting of the GFATM Board (5–6 June 2003), Notes for the Record: For the 3^rd Round of the GFATM, a new eligibility criterion has been introduced that is based on the World Bank Classification of countries, based on level of income:

• All low-income and lower–middle-income countries can apply.
• The following upper–middle-income countries may participate only in submitting proposals for AIDS:
         Barbados, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago.
  This excludes the following LAC countries from participating in the 3^rd Round:
         Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela and many of the countries in the English-Speaking Caribbean, except for Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and—as mentioned above—Barbados, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago for AIDS projects.

Complete information can be found in Annex 1 of the Guidelines,
      Questions and Answers about the GFATM.

Press Releases

• PAHO Will Help Countries Implement HIV Projects Financed by the Global Fund
• Speech by GFATM Director, Barcelona AIDS Conference (9 July 2002)

Contact Person (sida@paho.org)

HIV/AIDS Calendar (information on HIV/AIDS events)

Related Links

• Beyond Public and Private? Unorganised Markets in Health Care Delivery (World Bank World Development Paper*, 5 November 2002)
• GFATM main global site
• World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO/EMRO): EMRO's Support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

* Standing, Hilary & Gerry Bloom (2002) Beyond Public and Private? Unorganised Markets in Health-Care Delivery.Paper presented at the Workshop Making Services Work for Poor People, Eynsham Hall, Oxford, UK, 4–5 November. In: World Development Report (WDR) 2003/04. Washington, DC: World Bank.