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Todd Summers

Title Senior Advisor for Global Health
Organization ONE

Todd Summers is senior advisor for global health at ONE. Prior to that, he was a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The Global Fund: Zero Tolerance for Corruption and Misuse of Funds

January 24, 2011 / Todd Summers

Over the weekend, the Associated Press filed a story about corruption involving a small number of grants made by the Global Fund, an international partnership that channels funds to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria from donors like the United States to some of the poorest countries in the world. It’s always interesting to me when stories create news with misused facts and salacious headlines. So I thought it might be useful to have a little background and perspective from someone who’s spent a lot of time with the Global Fund.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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