January 25, 2012

Michel Kazatchkine Resigns as Global Fund Executive Director

Michel Kazatchkine, MD, will step down as executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in mid-March, according to a statement from Kazatchkine to staff and partners. Kazatchkine explained that he is leaving following the appointment of a general manager in 2011 to oversee rehabilitating the fund; this was needed because probes had uncovered financial mismanagement at the fund. Kazatchkine, a French clinical immunologist, has headed the fund for the past five years.

To read the Kazatchkine statement, click here.

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