The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said it elected Martin Dinham, a former Director General in the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, as the new Board Chair. Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Health Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, was elected Vice-Chair.  The Board also approved “a comprehensive reform agenda to maximise the effectiveness of the Global Fund,” as well as the framework for “an ambitious five-year agenda, which will set the direction and targets for the organization.”  The new five-year strategy (2012-2016) proposes that the Global Fund “should strive towards saving up to 20 million additional lives and averting 200 million infections by 2016. This will require improvements in efficiency”

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