The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

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The Global Fund is an international financing organization that aims to “attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.” A public-private partnership, the organisation's secretariat has an office in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization began operations in January 2002. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was one of the first private foundations among many bilateral donors to provide seed money for the partnership.

The Global Fund is the world's largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention, treatment, and care programs. As of May 2017, it had disbursed $33.8 bn to countries and communities in need of these programs. According to the organisation, as of 2016 it had financed the distribution of 795m insecticide-treated nets to combat malaria, provided anti-tuberculosis treatment for 17.4m people, supported 11m people on anti-retroviral therapy for AIDS, and saved 22m lives worldwide.

The Global Fund is a financing mechanism rather than an implementing agency. Programs are implemented by in-country partners such as ministries of health, while the Global Fund secretariat monitors the programs. Implementation is overseen by Country Coordinating Mechanisms, country-level committees consisting of in-country stakeholders that need to include, according to Global Fund requirements, a broad spectrum of representatives from government, NGOs, faith-based organizations, the private sector, and people living with the diseases. This system has kept the Global Fund secretariat smaller than other international bureaucracies. The model has also raised concerns about conflict of interest, as some of the stakeholders represented on the Country Coordinating Mechanisms may also receive money from the Global Fund, either as grant recipients, sub-recipients, private persons (e.g. for travel or participation at seminars) or contractors.

Transparency

The Global Fund is a partnership organisation between governments, civil society and the private sector. It raises and invests finances to support in country programmes to accelerate the end of these illnesses. The Global Fund became a member of IATI and first published to the IATI Registry in Nov.2011. PWYF page
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