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Sandra Irbe

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Website: http://www.theglobalfund.org/ Type: International Organization/Agency Country: Switzerland About: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in 2002 to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.

Recent Contributions

Sandra Irbe replied to "Integrating M&E for Health Systems Strengthening - April 2-6 2012" .

I would like to echo Kenny's points. From the perspective of the Global Fund as donor agency coming with its own Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit and requiring that grant-related indicators are monitored as part of the national MandE effort, I would like to point out the following: 1) there is ...
Sandra Irbe replied to "Expert Panel Feb. 20-24: Management of Second Line anti-TB Drugs: Getting it right" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

Dear Kaspars Thank you for outlining all the steps leading to the long delivery times of 2nd line drugs. At the Global Fund we should think how to accelerate the payment and ordering processes. Often times, the grant negotiations take long because of lack of clarity around other issues but ...
Sandra Irbe replied to "Expert Panel Feb. 20-24: Management of Second Line anti-TB Drugs: Getting it right" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

Dear colleagues From the point of view of implementation of the Global Fund grants I would like to emphasize the need of advance planning of procurement and submission of the drug order early in advance in order to account for the long delivery time. For countries that have been importing ...

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