The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation holds a board seat and chairs Unitaid’s Executive Committee, and the BMGF has given Unitaid $150 million since 2005.62 Various Gates-funded surrogate and front organizations, like Global Fund, Gavi, and UNICEF also contribute, as does the pharmaceutical industry.
$150M? Chump change for co-opting the regulatory and decision-making organisations when multi $B annual profits are on the line.
For bonus points, Andrew Hill was funded by ... Unitaid.
I wonder how much NGOs are simply a mechanism to enable the payoff of state insiders to shape regulatory frameworks to benefit private interests.
I.e. Private interests (e.g. Gates) fund an NGO (e.g. UNITAID) who then shape a regulatory response (Any Govt) that benefits a corporation owned by the private interest...
