Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund, travelled to Paraguay to attend the regional meeting and sign a new agreement for €3.5 million in order to fund HIV/AIDS programmes.
Amongst many acknowledgements of gratitude and providing a balance of the Global Fund in the region, its Executive Director, Professor Michel Kazatchkine, participated in a round of questions and answers with the participants at the Regional Meeting.
Following the presentation he met with Paraguay’s Minster of Health, Esperanza Martinez, to sign a new agreement for €3.5 million that is designated to fund programmes for prevention, diagnosing and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
“We have seen an extraordinary change in terms of health world-wide. The key factor was understanding the unacceptable gaps between the North and South countries”, stated Kazatchkine at the beginning of his presentation, in which he gave an analysis of the panorama in the region related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
In his analysis he said that 2010 “will be an absolutely critical year” as in addition to presenting the new structure, it will be a year of transition in which the Global Fund will become an autonomous institution. In reference to these changes Kazatchkine assured that the CCMs will occupy a very important place in advocacy.
“Five of the eight Millennium Development Goals are directly or indirectly related to health”, he maintained and assured that currently the Global Fund "has become the most important global funder" in terms of health.
“The model is very attractive because of its pillars and you are the ones who implement your proposals”, he explained. Thus, he persistently asked the representatives from the CCMs to make a commitment to successfully achieve the goals. “Keep working, manifesting, expressing your needs and be an advocate. The Global Fund is making a difference and this saves lives. And the Global Fund is you”, he expressed.
In the signing of the agreement with Paraguay, Kazatchkine insisted on a request for greater commitment from the regional CCMs in order to successfully reach the millennium goals linked to health: “With this signing, I have no doubts that the millennium objectives will be achieved by Paraguay. And they must be achieved for all countries in all of Latin America because they have potential”.
By Alejandra Ruffo
Key Correspondents Team – Asuncion, 9/12/09
Following the presentation he met with Paraguay’s Minster of Health, Esperanza Martinez, to sign a new agreement for €3.5 million that is designated to fund programmes for prevention, diagnosing and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
“We have seen an extraordinary change in terms of health world-wide. The key factor was understanding the unacceptable gaps between the North and South countries”, stated Kazatchkine at the beginning of his presentation, in which he gave an analysis of the panorama in the region related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
In his analysis he said that 2010 “will be an absolutely critical year” as in addition to presenting the new structure, it will be a year of transition in which the Global Fund will become an autonomous institution. In reference to these changes Kazatchkine assured that the CCMs will occupy a very important place in advocacy.
“Five of the eight Millennium Development Goals are directly or indirectly related to health”, he maintained and assured that currently the Global Fund "has become the most important global funder" in terms of health.
“The model is very attractive because of its pillars and you are the ones who implement your proposals”, he explained. Thus, he persistently asked the representatives from the CCMs to make a commitment to successfully achieve the goals. “Keep working, manifesting, expressing your needs and be an advocate. The Global Fund is making a difference and this saves lives. And the Global Fund is you”, he expressed.
In the signing of the agreement with Paraguay, Kazatchkine insisted on a request for greater commitment from the regional CCMs in order to successfully reach the millennium goals linked to health: “With this signing, I have no doubts that the millennium objectives will be achieved by Paraguay. And they must be achieved for all countries in all of Latin America because they have potential”.
By Alejandra Ruffo
Key Correspondents Team – Asuncion, 9/12/09
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