For those wanting better insight into the inner-workings of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, I highly recommend the lengthy and meaty transcript from the Council on Foreign Relations conversation with Michael Kazatchkine (the Global Fund’s Executive Director) earlier this month. Of note:
…everything that we would fund is evidence-based, so all of the requests that come to the Global Fund are screened and then carefully assessed by an independent panel of international experts from the north and from the south that we call the Technical Review Panel. It’s now a panel of 36 members that will look for how programmatically, epidemiologically, scientifically and financially a proposal is sound and that assessment usually brings that panel to only recommend about 50 percent of the proposals that come to the Global Fund.