Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 224 of its “Global Fund Observer.” The issue includes an interview with Alvaro Bermejo, executive director of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, who “recently stepped down (at the end of his two-year term) as a member of the Global Fund Board representing Developed Country [non-governmental organizations (NGOs)]”; an article examining how “[c]hanges in World Bank income classification levels may affect applicants”; and an article highlighting “a new initiative that hopes to promote discussion on the collection, interpretation and the use of in-country data that is vital to planning programs to address HIV, TB and malaria,” among others (8/6).