The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria was created in 2002. It is a unique global public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat these three diseases. This partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities represents a new approach to international health financing. As a financing mechanism, the Global Fund works in close collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral organizations to supplement existing efforts dealing with the three diseases.
Over the past five years, the Global Fund has approved grants for 450 programs in 136 countries with a total commitment of US$ 8 billion. As a result, 770,000 people have begun antiretroviral (ARV) treatment through Global Fund-supported programs and nearly 18 million insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed to prevent malaria. Tuberculosis programs have detected and treated two million TB cases under the Directly-Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTS) protocol, the internationally-approved TB control strategy.
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The Global Fund: Who We Are. What We Do
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