The last five years have seen a remarkable increase in the level of
financing and commitment in the war against AIDS, TB and Malaria. This
period has also witnessed remarkable innovations in the business of
development finance. The Global Fund has played a central role in both
of these phenomena.
Professor Sir Richard Feachem, who lead the Global Fund from its
inception in 2002 until March 2007, discusses the fight against the
great pandemics and the need to find a new architecture for development
finance drawing on the experience of the first five years of the Global
Fund. Professor Sir Richard will be cautiously optimistic about the
struggle against HIV/AIDS, ambitious in his remarks on malaria, and
provocative in his prescriptions for fundamental change in the way in
which aid is provided.
