Dear Colleagues,

This week, with many of you probably already looking forward to the World Health Summit   in Berlin, we come back on the Global Fund replenishment from last week (among others, with a  Featured article from Stéphanie Tchiombiano, Coordinator of the French think tank Santé mondiale 2030 ) ; cover the start of the IMF/WB annual meetings    ( The Bretton Woods conference took place 75 years ago, so this is sort of an ‘anniversary’, albeit a gloomy one); World Food Day (16 Oct) and of course provide you with the usual digest of the main other global health policy news & publications (including a new Global TB report ).   

With multilateralism in crisis (the UN’s  current cash- flow crisis  is a rather wry symbol of our times – the  75th anniversary of the UN in 2020 looks grim, for now  )  and people all over the world protesting in the streets (at least if they’re allowed to, and police & government don’t crack down  on them ), many in the development & aid sector...