The Global Fund expands its role. Interview by the Bulletin.

Since the Global Fund was established in 2002, it has expanded from 15 to 300 staff and plans to triple its current size by 2010, reaching a spending target of US$ 6 billion per year to meet projected demand. Single disease campaigns have recently come under fire for destroying health systems, but Kazatchkine argues that vertical funds can, in fact, strengthen health systems. He tells the Bulletin about his organization’s plans to finance health systems in developing countries while continuing to fund country programmes for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.