Selection Of New UNAIDS Executive Director Raises Larger Questions About Agency’s Purpose & Direction
Health Policy Watch - "A sensitive, closed-door selection of the new Executive Director for UNAIDS has kicked up a noisy social media debate among a number of leading global health figures, who questioned whether a separate bureaucracy for one disease, founded at the height of the AIDS epidemic, remains justified today – when bigger global health threats now loom.
(...) The informal, but very public social media debate over the agency’s future took shape as the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) met this week; the PCB was expected to issue its recommendation on a new Executive Director from a short-list of 5 candidates by Friday." (Photo: UN Geneva/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)