European Commission

The European Commission is the sixth largest donor to the Global Fund. The Commission and European Union member states, referred to as Team Europe, represent around one-third of the total funding to the Global Fund.

At the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference, the European Commission announced a pledge of €715 million for the period 2023-2025, a 30% increase over its pledge of €550 million to the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment (covering 2020-2022), and the highest amount ever received from the European Commission. It is a testimony to the confidence the European Commission has in the role of the Global Fund in fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and building resilient and sustainable systems for health. This increased pledge contributes to the amount pledged by Team Europe for the Seventh Replenishment, which represents 29% of the total amount pledged for 2023-2025.

In May 2022, the European Commission pledged €150 million to the Global Fund's COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM).

The European Commission is a member of 17 Country Coordinating Mechanisms – committees that manage funding requests and oversee Global Fund grants in countries where our partnership invests. The European Commission also provides bilateral support for health in 24 countries, complementing its multilateral investments through the Global Fund.

Pledges and contributions

Data updated on: 02 November 2024

Pledges and contributions by replenishment

Shared priorities

At the end of 2022, the European Commission adopted a new EU Global Health Strategy to improve global health security and deliver better health for all in a changing world. The Strategy positions global health as an essential pillar of EU external policy and is much aligned with the Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028. It promotes sustainable and meaningful partnerships of equals and puts forward three key interrelated priorities in dealing with global health challenges:

• Deliver better health and well-being of people across the life course.
• Strengthen health systems and advance universal health coverage.
• Prevent and combat health threats, including pandemics, applying a One Health approach.

Other aspects of importance for the partnership are the fight against antimicrobial resistance, the Global Fund’s role in market shaping, regional manufacturing of health commodities, and domestic resource mobilization and public financial management as contributors to sustainability.