Delivery Innovation

Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company. The Abbott Fund has pledged US$5 million to the Integrated Laboratory Systems Strengthening Catalytic Fund in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation.

Absa, a pan-African bank and purpose-led organization, is working with the Global Fund to leverage its voice, marketing and communication platforms to raise awareness of the importance of investing in health, as well as explore how to attract private capital to strengthen healthcare systems and supply chains across Africa. Absa has also provided financial support to a new social impact bond designed to improve HIV prevention amongst adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and has supported the South African Government’s pledge for the Seventh Replenishment. This aligns with the Group’s purpose of “empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together... one story at a time”.

Africa Health Business, a health consultancy based in Nairobi, supports the Global Fund by working with businesses to increase their engagement in health. Africa Health Business aims to create public-private partnerships in Africa, build the voice and advocacy of business leaders, mobilize resources, and find innovative solutions to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

Dimagi will invest US$5 million to support countries where the Global Fund invests to build and scale electronic community health information systems, to integrate CommCare applications at the community level into wider system data flows, and to introduce new digital innovations into established CommCare platforms. This contribution will support data-driven planning and prioritization to improve community health worker jobs and strengthen community health systems at the last mile in these countries.

The Global Fund’s partnership with GBCHealth leverages a network of over 200 companies committed to investing their resources and capabilities to strengthen supply chain management across Africa. A new platform coordinated by GBCHealth and intended to grow to include a diverse range of sectors enables the engagement of the great range and depth of corporate core competencies such as cold chain, route to market optimization, and last mile delivery – contributing to increasing medicine availability and improving supply chain efficiencies.

Medic will invest US$3 million to support countries where the Global Fund invests to scale up existing Community Health Toolkits (CHT) at a national level, to build a more robust and holistic record of patient care and to decentralize expertise to ensure the opportunity for sustainable local ownership of health system technology infrastructure. This contribution will largely help build capacity by enabling specialists to design community health systems at the last mile in these countries.

The Novartis Foundation is working with the Global Fund to accelerate and scale data and healthtech solutions to deliver real-time insights for improved decision making and more equitable access to health services in Africa. This will include building institutional and entrepreneurial capacity around data and digital health through the HealthTech Hub Africa, scaling local healthtech solutions and helping to shape innovative and sustainable models for healthtech financing.

The Global Fund’s partnership with PharmAccess Foundation supports African countries to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage by harnessing digital technology. PharmAccess, a Dutch nongovernmental organization with a presence in Africa, is dedicated to championing the development of mobile and digital technology platforms to expand access to affordable health care in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Global Fund’s partnership with Roche focuses on addressing two critical gaps in health systems – strengthening in-country capacity in managing health care waste and lab sample transport – by tapping into and adapting best practices and core competencies from Roche.

ViiV Healthcare, through its Positive Action programs and partnership with the Global Fund, continues to empower adolescent girls, young women and their communities to take the lead in shaping and driving community-led responses to the HIV epidemic. As part of its three-year strategic partnership with the Global Fund, ViiV supports the next phase of HER Voice. Specifically, it focuses on financing and capacity building among adolescent girls’ and young women’s groups to improve programmatic effectiveness, strengthen participation in Global Fund country processes and build the capacity of organizations and networks of young women. Learn more