Stories

5 March 2010
Debt2Health Presentation at International Conference on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development
The Debt2Health debt swap initiative of the Global Fund was presented at the market place at the international conference on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development in Paris. Susanne Luithlen from the innovative financing team gave an overview of Debt2Health and explained......
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4 March 2010
The Global Fund and Dow Jones Sign Memorandum of Understanding in Paris, to Explore Creation of Co-Branded Indexes
The Global Fund to Fight and Dow Jones Indexes signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the creation of a series of indexes that could be licensed as the basis for investible products. It is envisioned that the flagship of this index series would be a blue-chip index to be called the Dow Jones Global Fund 50 Index...
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17 -19 February 2010
Australia and Indonesia Agreed on Debt2Health Swap
During a visit to Jakarta from 17 to 19 February the innovative financing team reached an agreement on the swap between Australia and Indonesia and finalized the review of the tripartite agreement....
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9-10 December 2009
Debt2Health at Global Fund Regional Meeting for South America and Country Coordinating Mechanisms
Sol Pintos Castro from the Innovative Financing team of the Global Fund visited Asunción, Paraguay to introduce the Debt2Health initiative during the last Regional Meeting for South America and Country Coordinating Mechanisms organized by the Latin America and the Caribbean Cluster of the Global Fund...
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8-10 September 2009
Ecuador Joins the Debt2Health Initiative
Robert Filipp (Head of Innovative Financing) and Maria Sol Pintos Castro (Innovative Financing Officer) visited Ecuador to negotiate the possibility of implementing the Debt2Health initiative with the government...
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28-30 July 2009
Innovative Financing Team visits Jakarta, 28-30 July to discuss first Swap of Commercial Debt
In connection with the announcement of the Australian Government participating in a Debt2Health swap with Indonesia for AUS$75 million, Robert Filipp and Wael Ben Romdhane visited Jakarta from 28-30 July, 2009...
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22 June 2009
Breakfast with George Soros
Renowned investor and philanthropist George Soros received Christoph Benn, Cluster Director External Relations and Partnerships and Robert Filipp...
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28 May 2009
Australia Announces Participation in Debt2Health
On May, 28 the Australian Government announced that it was offering to write off AUS$ 75 million in commercial debt to Indonesia in return for Jakarta investing half that amount...
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23 April 2009
The Global Fund Visits Kyrgyzstan to Inform about Deht2Heallth
The Global Fund team represented by Maria Sol Pintos Castro and Valery Chernyavskiy met with the government and other stakeholders in Kyrgyzstan to discuss the Debt2Health initiative...
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11 March 2009
The Innovative Financing Team in Egypt – Informing the CCM and the Government, Cairo, 11 March
For the first time, Robert Filipp (Head of Innovative Financing) and Wael Ben Romdhane (Innovative Financing Officer) from the Innovative Financing team of the Global Fund met with Global Fund stakeholders in Egypt...
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27-28 February 2009
Innovative Financing of the Global Fund at IESE Business School Conference, Barcelona, 27-28 February
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1 December 2008
Inside the House of Money, Doha, 1 December
The IESE Business School in Barcelona held the 6th annual conference “Doing Good, Doing Well”. It is the leading student-run conference on responsible business....
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30 November 2008
Debt2Health Signing Ceremony between Pakistan, Germany and the Global Fund, side event at the Doha Conference on Financing for Development
Germany, Pakistan and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria signed the second Debt2Health agreement on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Financing for Development...
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29 November 2008
Innovative Financing for Health. Progress since Monterrey, side event at the Doha Conference on Financing for Development
The event featured innovative financing mechanisms that are supporting the GAVI Alliance, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and UNITAID...
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28 November 2008
International Business Forum on Financing for Development, independent event, Doha
This second International Business Forum focused on “The Impact of the Financial Crisis and Proposed Roadmaps: Mobilizing Private Sector Resources for Development”...
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28 November 2008
Informal Exchange with Civil Society on Debt2Health and Innovative Financing, side event at the Doha Conference on Financing for Development
As at the occasion of the global launch of the Debt2Health initiative in Berlin in September 2007 the Innovative Financing team organized an informal exchange with civil society to discuss Debt2Health...
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27 November 2008
Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Health, NGO-Forum event at the Doha Conference on Financing for Development
Organized by the European Alliance Against Malaria and Action for Global Health this event aimed at promoting health as a vital issue within the Civil Society Forum at Doha and at raising awareness of the innovative financing efforts underway...
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21 October 2008
Debt2Health presented in the informative session on "Innovative Financing Mechanisms. Bridging the Funding Gap to Achieve the MDGs" at the French Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels
The session was organized by the European Alliance against Malaria and aimed at exploring existing innovative funding mechanisms, originated to address the health related MDGs...
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20 October 2008
Debt2Health presented in Parliamentarians' Conference on "The Future of Parliamentary Involvement in Global Health and Development" in Brussels
The Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development, the Belgian All-Party Group on Population and Development and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, organized this one day event on “The Future of Parliamentary Involvement in Global Health and Development”...
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17 September 2008
Innovative Financing team in Quito, Ecuador - Meeting with the newly appointed Finance Minister Maria Elsa Viteri
Maria Elsa Viteri had been in office hardly 24 hours when she agreed to meet with the Innovative Financing team to discuss the prospects for Debt2Health in Ecuador...
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16 September 2008
Innovative Financing team in Quito, Ecuador - Civil Society Workshop on Debt2Health
Robert Filipp (Head of Innovative Financing), Susanne Luithlen (Advocacy and Outreach Innovative Financing) and Jürgen Kaiser (Coordinator of the German debt cancellation movement erlassjahr.de and advisor on debt issues to the Innovative Financing Team) visited Ecuador in September...
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June 2008
Start of Debt2Health in Indonesia
To mark the start of Debt2Health in Indonesia the government of Indonesia, the German Embassy and the Global Fund have jointly hosted a press conference and a dinner reception on 23 June in Jakarta...
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April 2008
Discussions on D2H in Peru
After receiving the official Debt2Health offer by the German Government Luis Carranza, Finance Minister of Peru regrettably declined the offer...
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February 2008
Barcelona Conference on Innovative Financing
The Brookings Institution and the business school IESE held a seminar on innovative financing from 25-26 February, which Robert Filipp (Head of Innovative Financing) attended to present Debt2Health...
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February 2008
Innovative Financing Team visits Japan
At the beginning of February the Global Fund’s Innovative Financing team visited Japan to explore the potential for Debt2Health in Japan – a country which traditionally has been rather reluctant to write off debts...
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February 2008
Innovative Financing Team in Australia
From 10-14 February the Innovative Financing team visited Australia to discuss the participation of the Australian government in the Debt2Health initiative...
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January 2008
Pakistan – negotiations on Debt2Health continue
Germany has piloted Debt2Health with the first agreement signed with Indonesia. Now Germany wants to move on to make use of the full potential of the EURO 200 million framework agreement it signed with the Global Fund...
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December 2007
German Parliament increases budget provision for debt swaps
The German Parliament, the Bundestag, passed the Budget Law 2008, which includes provisions that are relevant for the Debt2Health initiative of the Global Fund...
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December 2007
Innovative Financing team visits Kenya
The Innovative Financing team went to Kenya in early December for an exploratory visit on Debt2Health...
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September 2007
Launch Berlin
The 1st Debt2Health agreement was signed in Berlin between Germany, Indonesia and the Global Fund...
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