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Fighting AIDS, TB and Malaria

Over five years, with Global Fund resources..

	1.6 million people are projected to receive antiretroviral treatment, a six-fold increase over current coverage in developing countries)
	52 million persons will be reached with voluntary counseling and testing services for HIV prevention
	More than one million orphans will be supported through medical services, education and community care (Rounds One through Three)

See a listing of all our funded AIDS programs

In 2003, about 3 million people died of AIDS, three-quarters in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Another 5 million were newly infected. Young people ages 15-24 account for 42% of new HIV infections and represent almost one-third of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide.

Learn more about the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Our partners' websites:

UNAIDS
WHO

Global Fund grants are helping to..

	detect 3.5 million additional cases of infectious tuberculosis
	cure 2 million people through the internationally approved DOTS treatment strategy
	quadruple treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, with more than 12,000 new treatments.

See a listing of all our funded TB programs

Each year, nearly 2 million people die of TB, despite the availability of inexpensive treatments that are effective in up to 95% of cases.

Learn more about the Global TB Epidemic

Our partner's website:
Stop TB Partnership

The Global Fund is helping to..

	finance 108 million bed nets to protect families from transmission of malaria, thus becoming the largest financier of insecticide-treated bed nets in the world
	deliver 145 million artemisinin-based combination drug treatments for resistant malaria

See a listing of all our funded malaria programs

Malaria kills more than 1 million people a year, with 90% of these deaths occurring in Africa, mostly in children under 5 years of age.

Learn more about the Global Malaria Epidemic.

The Global Fund on malaria treatments.

Our partner's website:
Roll Back Malaria

Guidelines for malaria control recommended by Roll Back Malaria Department, WHO