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Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
One of the objectives laid down in the Millennium Declaration is to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other communicable diseases. The UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS thus decided to set up a Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria when it met in New York in June 2001.
The Global Fund serves to fund national responses to these three diseases, including strengthening the health sector. It also promotes government autonomy, civil-society and private-sector participation, and impact-oriented and gender-based measures to combat these three diseases. The Global Fund is now the world's largest financing body in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. It currently handles nearly two thirds of global resources dedicated to overcoming malaria and tuberculosis, and more than 20 per cent of global funds in the fight against AIDS.
The budget of the Global Fund is made up of voluntary contributions of donor countries and of the private sector. Within the framework of the second replenishment conference of the Global Fund, which was held in Berlin from 26 to 28 September 2007, the donors present pledged a total of 9.7 billion US dollars for the period 2008-2010.
At the replenishment conference Germany pledged 200 million euros per annum for the period 2008-2010. These amounts were already paid in 2008 and 2009.
Germany is also the first donor to support the Debt2Health Initiative of the Global Fund. Within the framework of this initiative, creditors like Germany cancel the debt of certain countries, which then in turn provide the Global Fund with part or all of the sum cancelled to finance health programmes in that country, thus freeing up resources for the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In April 2007, the Board of the Global Fund decided on a two-year pilot phase. So far, Germany has agreed to convert 50 million euros of Indonesia's debts and 40 million euros of Pakistan's debts into 25 and 20 million euros respectively to combat these three diseases in cooperation with the Global Fund.
The German government intends to support the Debt2Health Initiative to the tune of up to 200 million euros in debt cancellation in the period to 2010.
Australia became the second largest donor to the initiative in May 2009. The country has agreed to convert up to 75 million Australian dollars worth of Indonesian debt into 37.5 million Australian dollars which Indonesia will pay to the Debt2Health programme.
Contact
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Chemin de Blandonnet 8
1214 Vernier
Switzerland
Phone: +41 / 22 / 7 91 17 00
Fax: +41 / 22 / 7 91 17 01
