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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A smart, lifesaving U.S. investment
THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, AND MALARIA
Is the world’s largest global health funder
Invests more than $4 billion a year in programs run by local experts and governments
Builds stronger health systems, health security and pandemic preparedness
Accelerates the end of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases
How the Global Fund Helps Countries Respond to COVID-19
Adapting AIDS, TB and Malaria Programs
Procuring Diagnostics
Providing Lifesaving Treatment
Equipping Health Workers with PPE
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Ending AIDS
Translating Progress into Success to End the AIDS Epidemic is a collaboration between amfAR, AVAC, and Friends of the Global Fight, with technical assistance from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The report was conceptualized to take stock of how far we have come – and how far we have to go – toward ending HIV and AIDS around the world.
Ending TB
TB is curable. We need renewed and sustained political will to combat this epidemic. We know we can end the TB epidemic. It is a matter of scaling up effective programs, dedicating sufficient resources and mobilizing the political will. This report highlights six locations where communities made impressive progress to significantly reduce TB cases and deaths – from California in the United States to Tomsk, Russia and Karachi, Pakistan.
The Global Fund & Health Security
More than one-third of the Global Fund's work to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria also supports health security, finds The Lancet Global Health. Vertical programs play an essential role to grow health security capacity.
Infographic: U.S. AIDS, TB and Malaria Investments and Pandemic Preparedness
How U.S. investments in the global fight to end AIDS, TB and malaria help prepare the world to identify and respond to emerging pandemics.
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