Morning Briefing

Gabriel Jaramillo, the general manager of the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said in an interview on Friday that "quite a few donors" to the fund "have earmarked portions of their donations to us, their contributions, to capacity-building," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports. According to the AP, the Global Fund "is increasingly being forced to devote a portion of its donations to improving its own spending controls rather than disease-fighting," the news service writes. "France, whose nearly $2.9 billion in donations have made it the fund's second-largest contributor after the U.S., will sign a new pledging agreement this month requiring that five percent of its money go to tighten financial accountability among grant recipients, he said," the AP writes.