Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 222 of its “Global Fund Observer.” The issue includes an article on France’s announcement “that it will contribute approximately $467 million a year to the Global Fund for the period 2014-2016,” an article examining the Global Fund’s Grant Management Assurance Framework, and an article on “[a] new report from Open Society Foundations [which] says that local civil society participated extensively in the development of concept notes in Myanmar and Zimbabwe,” among others (7/17).