Global Fund Replenishment and Implementation Cycles
The Global Fund pools the world’s resources to invest strategically in programs to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria and strengthen systems for health. Together as a partnership of governments, civil society, technical agencies, the private sector and people affected by the diseases, we're committed to successfully funding our global efforts.
Our financing
Our financing is primarily from the public sector, with 92% of total funding from donor governments. The remaining funding comes from the private sector, foundations and innovative financing initiatives.
The Global Fund raises funds in three-year cycles known as Replenishments. We are entering our Seventh Replenishment cycle, covering the period 2023-2025.
Replenishments
The first three-year Replenishment cycle took place in 2005, before which all funding came from ad-hoc contributions. The Replenishment cycle was developed to enable more stable and predictable financing for countries and to ensure ongoing program continuity for life-saving interventions.
This year, for our Seventh Replenishment cycle, we're asking for at least US$18 billion to fight HIV, TB and malaria and build stronger systems for health, which reinforces pandemic preparedness.
Our COVID-19 Response
Due to COVID-19’s extraordinary impact on global public health and HIV, TB and malaria, the Global Fund is mobilizing additional resources to support the world's response in low- to middle-income countries.
COVID-19 Response Mechanism
The Global Fund reacted decisively to the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, quickly making available more than US$1 billion to support countries to respond to the pandemic, adapt their HIV, TB and malaria programs, and reinforce their already overstretched health systems and community-led health networks. We created the COVID-19 Response Mechanism and enabled countries to reallocate existing funds through grant flexibilities and savings to support their COVID-19 responses.
ACT-Accelerator
Another key part of our response has been our role as a founding partner in the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a groundbreaking coalition of organizations and governments to accelerate development, production and equitable access to COVID-19 tools. As part of the ACT-Accelerator, the Global Fund is a co-convener of both the Diagnostics Pillar (with FIND) and the Health Systems Connector (with the World Bank), and we are a procurement and deployment partner in the Therapeutics Pillar.
Mobilizing more
Global Fund donors have responded generously to the urgent needs in countries with additional resources. Thanks to investments and contributions to our C19RM from a growing number of donors, we are able to support countries to respond to COVID-19, while mitigating the impact on HIV, TB and malaria programs and strengthening systems for health. From March 2020 to date, we received support from the following countries (in order of announcement): Germany, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Luxembourg.
However, we need more funding to support countries, scale up testing and treatment, and protect health workers. We have the infrastructure, network, and capabilities, but we need more money. Only united can we beat COVID-19.