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04 May 2017
Global Fund Accelerates Efforts To End Epidemics
At its 37th Meeting, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria took significant steps toward increasing impact and maximizing effectiveness in its goal of ending epidemics, which will achieve greater health security and lon... -
03 May 2017
Global Fund Board Selects New Chair and Vice-Chair
The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria selected Aida Kurtović as its new Chair, after serving as Vice-Chair for the past two years. The Board also selected Ambassador John Simon as incoming Vice-Chair. -
26 April 2017
Liberia and Global Fund Deepen Partnership in Building Systems for Health
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf today outlined strategic areas of partnership between Liberia and the Global Fund, stressing the need to accelerate the process of building resilient and sustainable systems for health to prevent disease outbreaks. Lib... -
25 April 2017
New Global Fund Grant Aims for Malaria Elimination in the Mekong
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will continue to support five Southeast Asian countries to expand efforts against malaria, and aim to eliminate the most deadly strain of malaria. -
24 April 2017
Partnership Supports Launch of Malaria Vaccine Pilots in Three African Countries
The world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, has moved a step closer to a global rollout following WHO’s announcement that Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will begin administering the vaccine in 2018. -
21 April 2017
Global Fund Names Rutger de Witt Wijnen Interim General Counsel
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today announced that with effect from 1 June 2017, Rutger de Witt Wijnen will become Interim General Counsel at the Global Fund. -
07 April 2017
Global Fund Welcomes Italy’s €140 million Contribution
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria welcomed a contribution of €140 million from the government of Italy for the three-year period beginning in 2017, a strong demonstration of Italy’s leadership in global health. -
06 April 2017
The Global Fund and Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Partner to Prevent and Control Cervical Cancer
Today leaders of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon signed an agreement to collaborate on programming to prevent cervical cancer. HIV positive women are up to five times more likely to develop cervical ... -
31 March 2017
Global Fund Names Sylvie Billion Interim Chief Financial Officer
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria today announced that Sylvie Billion, Deputy CFO and Treasurer, will become Interim Chief Financial Officer. -
27 March 2017
Japan Secures US$313 million Contribution to the Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria welcomes the Japanese Diet’s passage of the fiscal 2016 supplementary budget and the fiscal 2017 budget, which includes Japan’s contribution of US$313 million to the Global Fund.