Michel D. Kazatchkine became Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in April 2007. Read more...

I am writing this blog a week after the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna and only a few days after coming back from the African Union Summit in Kampala. I am writing this blog nearly 30 years after the first cases of AIDS were reported; 10 years after the International AIDS Conference in Durban brought the world’s attention to the moral outrage of the failure to provide antiretroviral treatment in much of the developing world; 10 years after member states of the United Nations agreed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015; and 8 years after the Global Fund was established to vastly scale up the response to AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.

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Dr Chan is Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2006. Read more...

Two months from now, world leaders will meet at the UN in New York to review progress with the Millennium Development Goals. The many reports coming across my desk suggest that the MDGs have been good for development.

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The collection and distribution of unwanted, but still-usable goods is one of the many ways in which the populations of the North demonstrate solidarity with those of the South. This discreet flow of aid has an immediate impact and is appreciated by the beneficiaries. However, it is not held in great esteem, is badly quantified and has become increasingly complex

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For those of us who work in the humanitarian world, the dawn of the twenty-first century has dealt us a difficult hand. As the expert practitioners in the game of preparing and planning for sudden, unpredictable events, we at the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian agency, have become the recognised experts in emergency response.

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