About the Authors

John Stover

jstover@futuresinstitute.org

Affiliation Futures Institute, Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States of America

Eline L. Korenromp

Affiliations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Matthew Blakley

Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Ryuichi Komatsu

Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Kirsi Viisainen

Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Lori Bollinger

Affiliation Futures Institute, Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States of America

Rifat Atun

Affiliations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

ELK, MB, RK, KV, and RA are employees of the Global Fund. They determined the study objectives, provided data on GF expenditures and patients supported, reviewed the conclusions and participated in writing the paper.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS ELK RK RA. Analyzed the data: JS ELK MB RK RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS LB. Wrote the paper: JS ELK MB KV RK RA.