This is a repost of a report by Vladimir Encarnación Jáquez, Dominican Republic.

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has had a positive impact in Indonesia helping the country leverage local and national funding for its programmes. The video presents interviews with a diverse range of stakeholders and touches on issues around financial accountability, the need for programme implementers to have more training to manage TB, HIV or malaria programs, raises fears of people living with HIV about starting on anti-retroviral therapy and adhering to treatment and presents views on the scaling up treatment to meet MDGs targets.

These are the facts (source: Time to Act-Save a million lives by 2015 brochure) :

At least one out of three people in the world has latent TB infection, which increases the risk of becoming ill with TB.

Stop TB Partnership – Kochon Prize
2011 Call for Nominations