Human rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria February 2011 This publication was originally prepared as Commitments and conundrums: Human rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and distributed in draft form at the International AIDS Conference in July 2010. [...] With respect to “sound- ness of approach,” the TRP is instructed to consider whether a proposal addresses: issues of human rights and gender equity and use[s] human-rights based approaches to address the three diseases, including by contributing to the elimination of stigmatization of and discrimination against those infected and affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, especially populations that a [...] Or, as the CCM guidelines state with respect to “vulnerable and marginalized groups,” the Global Fund “strongly encourages CCMs to consider how to improve the representation and participation of representatives from such groups on the CCM, taking into account the scale of the national epidemic of the three diseases and the key affected popula- tions…” (Global Fund 2008b:3). [...] C Gender-related Strategies and Actions The Global Fund has in recent years made explicit efforts to improve its policies and performance in gender-related human rights, including both the rights of women and girls and what the Global Fund characterizes as rights related to sexual orienta- tion and gender identity (SOGI). [...] In response to the lack of inclusion of women-focused activities in Global Fund projects, the Open Society Foundations in 2007 hired three consultants to work with coalitions of women’s groups in eight countries in eastern and southern Africa to strengthen their participation in CCM processes and ultimately the inclusion of women’s issues in Global Fund proposals (Amakobe et al.