AIDS, TB and malaria are all preventable and treatable – but solving this problem requires the commitment not only of world leaders and decision-makers but also of those working on the ground to help the men, women and children living with these diseases.
The idea for the Global Fund arose from a wellspring of grass-roots political advocacy coming face-to-face with the imperatives of global leadership. The mission of the Global Fund is to invest the world’s money to defeat these three diseases. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in 2002 to raise, manage and invest the world’s money to respond to three of the deadliest infectious diseases the world has ever known. The Global Fund also fully supports and participates in the International Aid Transparency Initiative. All audits and investigations by the Office of the Inspector General are openly published. The Global Fund operates with a high degree of transparency in all of its work, including applications for funding, funding decisions, grant performance, results, governance and oversight. Local Fund Agents carefully monitor and verify program performance and results. Programs need to have proven, effective and time-bound results in order to receive continued funding. Each country tailors its response to the political, cultural and epidemiological context.
FUND PRINCIPAL DEFINITION FULL
Country ownership means that people determine their own solutions to fighting these three diseases, and take full responsibility for them.
FUND PRINCIPAL DEFINITION HOW TO
People implementing programs on the ground know best how to respond to AIDS, TB and malaria in their local contexts. All those involved in the response to the diseases should be involved in the decision-making process. The only way to end AIDS, TB and malaria as epidemics is by working together: Governments, civil society, communities affected by the diseases, technical partners, the private sector, faith-based organizations, and other funders. New diagnostics systems are speeding up the testing and treatment of people with TB. The number of people dying of malaria, most of them young children, has been cut in half.
Millions of people are now on antiretroviral therapy and spared the death sentence that used to come with HIV. Scientific advances, innovative ideas and private sector know-how are unlocking improvements in disease prevention, treatment and care. Together with our Partners, we’re helping to revitalize entire communities, strengthen local health systems and improve economies. Working together, these smart, effective health investments through the Global Fund have saved 44 million lives and provided prevention, treatment and care services to hundreds of millions of people. Since its creation in 2002 the Global Fund has disbursed more than US$50 billion in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria and for programs to strengthen systems for health across more than 155 countries, including regional grants, as of June 2021, making it one of the largest funders of global health. As a partnership of governments, civil society, technical agencies, the private sector and people affected by the diseases, the Global Fund pools the world’s resources to invest strategically in programs to end AIDS, TB and malaria as epidemics. TB unfairly afflicted the poor, as it had for millennia. Malaria killed young children and pregnant women unable to protect themselves from mosquitoes or access life-saving medicine.
In many countries, AIDS devastated an entire generation, leaving countless orphans and shattered communities. In 2000, AIDS, TB and malaria appeared to be unstoppable. In partnership with governments, civil society, technical agencies, the private sector and people affected by the diseases, we are challenging barriers and embracing innovation. As an international organization, the Global Fund mobilizes and invests more than US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in more than 100 countries. The Global Fund is a partnership designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics.
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