2026 GFAN Calls

2026 GFAN Calls - Recordings & Resources

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GFAN hosts regular conference calls with advocates from around the world. The calls are used for information sharing and joint strategizing on the Global Fund.

Below you will find recordings and additional documents from past calls.

Notes, recordings and slides from calls regarding the ACT Accelerator can be found here: http://covid19advocacy.org/calls-details-and-notes/

On this call we debrief the HIV HLM process and we share our plans for the IAS in Rio. 

On this call we debrief the Africa Forward Summit, the World Health Assembly, and talk about engaging around the G7. Key ressources shared on the call:

Our 2026-2030 Strategy is out now and you can find it here. On this call we are joined by a panel of few of are fantastic GFANers reflecting on what the new strategy holds and what the next chapter for GFAN looks like. Worth a watch, we'd say!

On this call we are joined by aidsfonds and the co-chair of the Multistakeholder Taskforce to talk about the HIV HLM, then we discuss with TAG the treatment pipeline for TB and how it can be used to inform GC8 prioritization decisions.

Ressources from the call: The powerpoint.

Additional tools:

  • Our key resources for GC8
  • Listen to our call on innovation and GC8.
  • An Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for DS-TB, here.
  • An Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for DR-TB, here.
  • Community DR-TB Treatment Resources, here.
  • TB Treatment Regimen Cheat Sheet, here.
  • 2025 TB Treatment Pipeline Report, here.
  • New TAG factsheet coming soon to support advocacy for 4HPMZ in GC8!
  • Near Point-of-Care  (NPOC) TB Tests: What Communities Need to Know and Advocate for in GC8, here.
  • CGHPP What We Want in GC8, here.
  • GF GC8 Prioritization Guidance for TB, here.

On this call we shared our World Malaria Day toolkit, we were joined by colleagues from MSF and LSHTM to talk about Health Financing, and we shared our tools on how the U.S. MoUs will impact GC8 planning.

Ressources from the call: Our powerpoint; The Health Financing Powerpoint; Call notes

Our tools: 

  1. A "Reading the U.S. MoUs" guide
  1. A template to extract information from your MoUs

On this call we talked about challenges and opportunities to new tools roll out in GC8:

AVAC on Injectable PrEP

nPOC testing for TB (Georgestown University); and TAG brief

On this call we discussed what we knew about the launch of GC8 and heard from colleagues at United for Global Mental Health about how to integrate co-morbidities into Global Fund grants

GFAN GC8 Key ressources page

United for Global Mental Health and UNAIDS report

UfGMH Presentation deck - (and short version)

On this call heard from partners about the missing pledges in France and the European Commission, we discussed the year ahead in Global Health and we gave a brief update on the U.S. MoUs.

You can find the powerpoint here, and to go deeper around the MoUs you can look at CHAI's great analysis here.