Global Fund
| Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | |
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| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Geneva , Switzerland |
| main emphasis | medical help |
| Action space | worldwide |
| people | Peter Sands |
| Website | www.theglobalfund.org |
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ( english The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, short GFATM), headquartered in Geneva , Switzerland , is a financial instrument to combat the three major infectious diseases AIDS , Tuberculosis and Malaria . The fund, which operates in more than 100 countries around the world, is one of the most important instruments for combating these diseases.
history
The fund was founded in 2002 after the G8 countries agreed at their meeting in Genoa in 2001 to increase funding for the global fight against the three serious infectious diseases AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. A year earlier, the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for such a fund to be set up.
The fund serves to finance national measures against the three diseases, including strengthening health systems. It also promotes government responsibility, the participation of civil society and the private sector, as well as impact and gender-oriented measures against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The former head of the US AIDS program PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Mark Dybul, was elected head of the Global Fund in 2012. He held this office until May 2017. Mark Dybul is widely recognized as a visionary in global health and was instrumental in establishing and implementing the US President's Emergency Plan to Fight AIDS (PEPFAR). As a doctor with a focus on immunology, he became a recognized HIV and AIDS expert as a physician, scientist and strategically thinking administrator. After Mark Dybul left, Marijke Wijnroks temporarily headed the organization. Peter Sands has been Director of GFATM since March 2018 .
financing
So far (as of the end of 2018), the organization has raised funds totaling 39.6 billion US dollars from governments and private donors, thereby financing more than 1,000 programs in 140 countries. This means that the fund provides a quarter of the world's resources to fight AIDS. In addition, two thirds of all money to fight tuberculosis and three quarters of all money to fight malaria come from the Fund.
The funds are raised by the fund in three-year cycles and thus local projects are supported in accordance with the goals of the organization.
If funds fall, there is a risk that patients who have previously been provided with medication may no longer receive any more and that resistance may develop due to the interrupted therapy. In this context, UNAIDS Secretary General Michel Sidibé spoke in 2010 of a possible 'HIV Nightmare'. Tuberculosis is also a globally growing health risk, in particular due to multi-resistant TB (MDR-TB ). The fund is the most important international financing institution for combating MDR-TB.
successes
Since the Global Fund was launched in 2002, it has become the main source of funding for programs aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Compared to 2002, the number of deaths from AIDS was halved at the end of 2017 and mortality from tuberculosis fell by 37%. The programs, which are financed from the Global Fund, have already saved 27 million lives - in 2017 by distributing drugs to treat AIDS to 17.5 million people and drugs to treat tuberculosis to 5 million people, and the distribution of 197 million malaria nets treated with insecticides.
| power | number |
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| People on antiretroviral treatment for HIV | 17.5 million |
| HIV tests done | 79.1 million |
| Reached out to people with HIV prevention programs and services | 9.4 million |
| Treating people with TB | 5 million |
| People with drug-resistant TB under treatment | 102,000 |
| Mosquito nets distributed | 197 million |
| Malaria cases treated | 108 million |
Problems
On June 23, 2016, it was announced that the procurement of around 69 million condoms , worth the equivalent of around 1.8 million euros, financed by a donation from the Global Fund to Ethiopia , had to be disposed of, as the condoms manufactured in India had significant quality problems.
Germany and the Global Fund
As the fourth largest donor (after the USA, France and Great Britain), Germany makes an important contribution to the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
In addition, as a member of the board of directors, the country is playing a critical role in helping the global fund restructure and streamline its operations so that the organization's investments are well thought out and maximized.
The fund has also introduced a new financing model. The new financing model promotes greater responsibility for the federal states for projects. In addition, the new funding model acts as an incentive for political dialogue with the program implementing countries and at the same time aims to take into account issues of equality between men and women, as well as sexual and reproductive health and human rights issues. The state dialogue as a key element of the new financing model also offers new opportunities for the commitment of all partners, including from civil society and the private sector.
In addition to these contributions, Germany is also one of the leading patrons of the Debt2Health program of the Global Fund, which has led to a significant increase in funding for programs of the Global Fund worldwide. As part of this initiative, Germany took a haircut in countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, Indonesia, Pakistan and Egypt.
Partnerships with German companies
The “Innovation Coalition” was launched in December 2013 as part of the last donor conference of the Global Fund and is a multisectoral partnership of private companies and organizations.
See also
Web links
Individual references, footnotes
- ^ The Global Fund: A Smart Investment . The Global Fund. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
- ^ The Global Fund Archivlink ( Memento from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) History
- ^ Financials. In: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Overview of donors as of December 31, 2018, .xlsx
- ↑ Global Fund Overview. Accessed March 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Funding model. Accessed March 26, 2019 .
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↑ Is an HIV Nightmare on the Way? in the NIBR International Blog, August 23, 2010
- ↑ News | | German NGOs for a world without tuberculosis. Retrieved on March 26, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria . World Health Organization. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ↑ Results Report 2018. The Global Fund, accessed March 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Global Fund Results . Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
- ↑ Ethiopia discards 69 million condoms due to quality defects ( memento from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Government Donors. In: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Germany. In: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .