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The Global Fund and the fight against COVID-19

Presented by Lady Rosyln Morauta
 

When: Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 6pm until 7pm
Where: Holding Redlich, Level 1, 300 Queen Street, Brisbane 

This is event is free for AIIA members from all states. Non-members pay $10 and student non-members $5

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You can attend this event in-person or view it online. If attending in person, please arrive at Holding Redlich at 5.30pm for registration and drinks.  Because of COVID restrictions, AIIA Queensland needs to have accurate information about audience numbers. Please register for this event. You must also bring a mask to this event.

Details for viewing online: After registering, on April 27 you will receive a follow-up confirmation email containing further details on how to join the webinar which will commence at 6pm AEST.  If you have not received an email by early afternoon, please check your junk folder. 

About the event
 

Lady Roslyn Morauta, the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Global Fund, will discuss the impact of the COVID 19 on the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and how the organisation is using its experience working with partners and governments to support a response on a massive worldwide scale. The Global Fund is a partnership designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics. As an international organisation, it mobilises and invests more than $US4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in more than 100 countries. Since 2002, the Global Fund partnership has saved 38 million lives and provided prevention, treatment and care services to hundreds of millions of people, helping to revitalise entire communities, strengthen local health systems and improve economies. This progress though is being threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having a catastrophic impact on the most vulnerable communities around the world. 


About the speaker

Lady Roslyn has a long association with the Global Fund having served as alternate Board Member for the Western Pacific Region constituency and as Chair of the Papua New Guinea Country Coordinating Mechanism. From her time also as first lady of Papua New Guinea, she has steadily championed health, HIV programs and gender issues. Lady Roslyn has worked in Papua New Guinea for the National Planning Office, the Department of Finance and Treasury and in the private sector, both as a management consultant and running businesses. Originally from Australia, she has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea since 1982. Prior to that, she worked in publishing in England, taught politics at the University of Ghana, the Australian National University and The University of Queensland. Lady Roslyn was elected Vice-Chair of the Board of the Global Fund from June 2019.

Picture:  A patient is treated at the Susa Mama health clinic, Port Moresby General Hospital. Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

David Costello

Secretary

AIIA QLD

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