A large symposium session on "The Global Fund: Proving Impact, Promoting Rights" leads the line-up of Global Fund-related events at the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna, Austria, on 18-23 July 2010.

By the end of 2012, the Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General hopes to have completed audits in over half of the 144 countries in which the Fund has grant programmes, seeking to determine whether those grants are operating effectively and achieving the anticipated results. The office also tries to detect actual and potential fraud involving Global Fund money.

Among other things, the action alert contains guidance on how civil society organisations can get involved in the CCM proposal development process.

Organised by International Civil Society Support, the website provides information about advocacy efforts to mobilise resources for the Global Fund in the run-up to the replenishment meeting which will take place on 4-5 October 2010 in New York.

African governments have not lived up to their commitment in the Abuja Declaration to allocate 15% of their annual budgets to health expenditure, according to a report by the Global Fund.

Product Red, the Global Fund"s largest private sector contributor, has now contributed more than $150 million to support Global Fund programmes in six African countries. In 2008, contributions from the private sector and foundations represented 6.6% of total contributions to the Fund. The Fund aims to increase this proportion to 10% in the coming years.

The Q&A provides a basic understanding of the concepts of grant consolidation and the single stream of funding, and of how Global Fund applicants and implementers will be affected.

UNAIDS has released a guidance tool on how to include community systems strengthening activities in Global Fund proposals.

French- and Spanish-language versions of the "Toolkit for Using Round 10 of the Global Fund for Health Systems Strengthening" are now available.