Managing the conflicts between private interests and public responsibility
The British Journal Opinion - "The Global Fund partnership is an important mechanism for transferring funds from national, multilateral, and private donors to low and middle income countries to assist in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Most of the Global Fund’s contributions come from governments, although there has long been private sector interest in engagement with the Fund for the benefits this might bring them.
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the Global Fund has experienced difficulty in sustaining the flow of donor funds, despite the continuing burden of disease associated with these three diseases.
Initiatives by the Global Fund to attract corporate funding inevitably raise important questions regarding conflicts between private interests and public responsibility. The most recent instance is the Global Fund’s announcement, at the 2018 World Economic Forum, of three new partnerships with Lombard Odier, Heineken, and Unilever." (Photo: Pan American Health Organization PAHO/flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)