Civil Society’s Critical Role in the Successes of the 6th Replenishment of the Global Fund
On
2 December, GFAN Africa met with Peter Sands the Executive Director of The
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on the sidelines of ICASA
2019 Rwanda and
had conversations on the 6th replenishment of the Global Fund. The October 2019
replenishment raised $14.028 billion to help save 16 million lives and avert
234 million new HIV, tuberculosis and malaria infections in the next three
years.
Peter acknowledged the enormous role that civil
society played in advocacy in the run up to the replenishment, which led to
increased contributions by implementing countries in Africa and ultimately, to
a successful replenishment. A record 24 countries pledged towards the
replenishment. In the build up to the replenishment conference, civil society
organizati...
Members of civil society and communities gathered together on the morning of October 8 for a discussion, updates, and a Q&A with Global Fund Executive Director, Peter Sands. The meeting was hosted by GFAN and its Regional Partners from Africa and Asia-Pacific. Participants had an opportunity to gather as well as to look at last-minute messaging and preparations for the conference. We would like to give a special thank you to the Global Fund for providing this space for advocates and communities to meet.
TB kills more people than any other infectious disease and is the leading killer of people living with HIV; about one in three deaths among people with HIV are due to TB.
The Global Fund provides 69% of all international financing for tuberculosis (10% of total available resources) and has disbursed US$6.6 billion for TB programs and US$2.1 for TB/ HIV programs as of June 2019. As the leading international funder of TB programs, the Global Fund is a critical partner in achieving the new targets set at the UN High-Level Meeting.
See the results of these initiative and others in the fight against tuberculosis worldwide in the Global Fund’s Results Report 2019 .
GFAN Speaker Timur Abdullaev shares his insights as an HIV+ person who received lifesaving tuberculosis treatment from a Global Fund program with participants of the RESULTS International Conference. He is confident that we can...
The Global Fund launched HER in 2018 to drive down HIV infection rates among adolescent girls and young women through partnerships with the private sector in 13 priority countries. This is just one of the programs that the Global Fund funds to promote gender equality and ensure that women and girls are able to take charge of their own health.
Working together with PEPFAR and other organizations, the Global Fund has increased our investments in adolescent girls and young women fi vefold in the 2017-2019 period, to US$200 million. The Global Fund’s matching funds program used US$55 million to mobilize an additional US$140 million for programs to reduce new HIV infections, violence, and unintended pregnancies among 1 million adolescent girls and young women in 13 hardest-hit countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
