Press
Release
11
March 2002
French
FUND NAMES TECHNICAL REVIEW PANEL TO REVIEW FUNDING
PROPOSALS
First Grant Awards to be Announced in April
GENEVA,
March 11, 2002 - The Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria, a new initiative to combat the epidemics that
kill six million people each year, today announced the appointment
of an international panel of experts that will review all
grant proposals and make recommendations to the Board for
funding.
The
17-member Technical Review Panel includes experts in disease
control and prevention, clinical care, health education,
and international development. All members of the panel
have worked in the developing world, where the HIV/AIDS,
TB, and malaria epidemics have the greatest impact.
The
Technical Review Panel will meet in Geneva from 25 March
to 5 April to review the first round of funding proposals.
The Board will make final funding decisions, and will announce
the first grant awards at the conclusion of its next meeting,
scheduled for 22-24 April in New York.
"This
panel of experts will help the Fund to identify projects
that will have clear and demonstrable impact in the fight
against AIDS, TB, and malaria," said Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga,
the Fund's Board Chair, who announced the appointments today.
"We are very pleased that the Fund will be guided by some
of the world's leading public health authorities, who bring
with them invaluable technical knowledge and extensive field
experience."
Technical
Review Panel members were selected from a group of almost
700 nominees from around the world. Members of the panel
were drawn from government and non-governmental organizations,
the developed and developing worlds, and the public and
private sectors. Panel members will serve in their personal
capacities as experts in their fields, not as representatives
of their institutions or governments.
Appointees
to the Technical Review Panel include:
Jonathan
Broomberg, South Africa
Alex Godwin Coutinho, Uganda
Usa Duongsaa, Thailand
Paula Fujiwara, USA
Sarah Julia Gordon, Guyana
Ranieri Guerra, Italy
Michel Kazatchkine, France
Peter Kazembe, Malawi
Mary Ann Lansang, Philippines
Fabio Luelmo, Argentina
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Poland
Jane Elizabeth Miller, UK
Toru Mori, Japan
Peter Sandiford, New Zealand
Amadou Sy Elhadj, Senegal
Valdilea Veloso Dos Santos, Brazil
Kong-Lai Zhang, China
About
the Fund
AIDS,
TB and malaria have a devastating global impact, causing
nearly six million deaths a year - 10% of the world's total.
The Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
is an independent public-private partnership working to
increase global resources to combat the three diseases,
to direct these resources where they are needed most, and
to ensure that they are used effectively. The Fund was created
to share resources and expertise across national boundaries
and private and public sectors in order to make an ongoing
and significant contribution to the goal of reducing infections,
illness, and death. The Fund will disburse between $700-$800
million in 2002, effectively increasing global spending
on these epidemics by 50%.
