Supporting a Successful Replenishment and the Co-hosts’ Vision: A Call for All Donors to Step Up
The Developed Country NGO Delegation shares the Vision for Partnership presented by the UK and South Africa, as co-hosts of the Global Fund’s Eighth Replenishment. We commend the joint commitment to strengthen “global health through solidarity, sustainability, innovation, equity, and reform” and we co-sign the call to action for all partners to end AIDS, TB, malaria, and to build country-owned, sustainable and resilient health systems.
In the Vision for Partnership, we support the calls on the private sector and philanthropic partners to “step up their contribution” and partner countries to “increase domestic financing.” And we would extend that same call to action for the full range of public sector donors as well – that they, too, must step up with increased pledges to help meet the full US$18 billion target. We commend the substantial contributions by G7 countries to date, which make up 83% of funding for the Global Fund. As a delegation with members based in G7 countries and other countries ineligible for Global Fund funding due to high-income status, we are counting on all our countries’ governments to increase their pledges to help meet the scale of the need. This would be the most meaningful demonstration of the co-hosts’ objectives of solidarity – with “all partners standing firm to support the Global Fund and global health multilateralism, including donors, partner countries, civil society, communities, academia and the private sector.”
We are proud of the achievements thanks to our collective efforts through Global Fund investments: Together, we have saved 70 million lives, including by putting 25.6 million people diagnosed with HIV and 7.4 million people diagnosed with TB on treatment, and by protecting 692 million people from malaria through greater access to insecticide-treated mosquito nets. In the 8th funding replenishment, we have the incredible potential to save 23 million more lives, avert 400 million new infections or cases, and save an estimated US$42 billion in primary health care costs between 2024-2029.
The Global Fund has reached these global health milestones thanks to bold investment and efforts across the Global Fund Partnership. The minimum target for the Eighth Replenishment to protect and sustain our gains against the three diseases is US$18 billion. Across the Partnership, we understand the immense opportunities these global health investments create – every one dollar generates US$19 in health gains and economic returns, plus another US$3.50 in economic productivity gains. We cannot afford to turn down these opportunities that end up costing tens of millions of people’s lives.
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