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Assessment Report Summary Community and Civil Society Learning Needs

In the first half of 2024, a baseline survey was conducted to document the key learning needs of communities of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to enhance their engagement in Global Fund (GF) grant processes and national responses to the three diseases....

There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch:

Challenges of Costing Community Interventions in LAC By Alejandro Uriza Ferretti  “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” This quote, attributed to economist Milton Friedman, was one of the first lessons I learnt when I was studying economics at university. Beyond...

Transforming health service delivery in Latin America through community eyes using the power of CLM 

By: Keren Dunaway In 2023, Via Libre and the LAC Platform carry out an assessment of Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) initiatives across three Latin American countries: El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Paraguay. This evaluation was part of a broader effort to increase...

What Community-Led Monitoring is and is not 

By: Javier HourcadeLAC Key Correspondent Team and GFATM Board Member Communities Delegation.  Over the past 22 years, the Global Fund partnership has saved 59 million lives and halved the number of annual deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria. In 2022, the Global Fund...