Global Fund

Description

The Global Fund is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector, and people to collectively fight and end the risk of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria.

Use of Funds

Funds support prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; diagnostics; healthcare worker training; and building resilient and sustainable health systems.

Justification

• Since 2002, in countries where the Global Fund invests, the Global Fund has helped save more than 50 million lives and cut HIV, TB, and malaria deaths by nearly half.
• In 2021, the Global Fund provided 3 million people with antiretroviral therapy for HIV, treated 5.3 million people with TB, and distributed 133 million mosquito nets to help prevent malaria.
• In 2021, 4 million adolescent girls and young women were reached with HIV prevention programs in 13 sub-Saharan African countries—a 133% increase compared to 2020.
• In countries where the Global Fund invests, TB deaths have been reduced by 21% as of 2020 and new TB cases have dropped by 5%.
• 34 million children received preventative malaria treatment in 2021, an increase of 7.8 million compared to 2020.