China's Global Fund Applications (HIV/AIDS)

ROUND SIX APPLICATION PROCESS BEGINS - VIEW ROUND SIX APPLICATION SITE


updated 24 August 2004
After two failed applications, China's applications for Rounds Three and Four have both been approved by the Global Fund board. The first installment of funds for Round Three (total $96 million US) has been approved. The more modest application for Round Four ($62 million US) has been tentatively approved, pending further clarification from the Chinese CCM and PR (Principal Recipient).

Each application is for seven provinces. Round Three concentrates on Central China (Henan and surrounding provinces, mainly those who were infected through plasma selling), and Round Four on Southern Provinces + Xinjiang (mainly IV drug users and sex workers).

Each application is for a five year work plan, and each (at least in the plan) involves both NGOs and PLWA in the process.

view summaries of Round Three and Round Four applications

view .pdf versions of Round Three and Round Four full applications

In August 2004, China finally signed a contract for the first installment of funds for two years of the Round Three work, a total of $32 million US. View announcement.

Coming on the heels of SARS, the plan might also represent a new approach to public health and epidemic prevention in China. There are indications that high-level opinion is shifting towards including HIV/AIDS as a public health priority, and Vice-Minister of Health Gao Qiang (see story) announced at the UN that China would provide free treatment to those who cannot afford it themselves. There has even been mention of universal free Anti-Retroviral treatment in China. Should such a policy be adopted, it would be a radical and very positive move, unthinkable only a few years ago.