Africa: Focus More on Sexual and Gender Minorities, Civil Society Groups Tell Global Fund

Civil society organisations are apprehensive about the impact that the reorganisation of the Global Fund Secretariat will have on the Gender Equality Strategy and on the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities (SOGI) Strategy. The CSOs also expressed concern about what they see as insufficient progress being made in the implementation of both strategies.

Civil society organisations (CSOs) from around the world are concerned about the impact that the reorganisation of the Global Fund Secretariat will have on the Fund's Gender Equality Strategy and the Fund's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities (SOGI) Strategy. In two letters sent to the Fund's General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo on 8 May 2012, CSOs also expressed concern about what they see as insufficient progress being made in the implementation of both strategies.

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