Global fund partnership saved 38 million lives

According to a report released today, the World Fund partnership has saved 38 million lives since 2002. This means that the number of lives saved has increased by 20% compared to the previous year. Significant progress has been made in improving the efficiency of service delivery, finding and treating more people in life-saving medicine, reducing the cost of medical products, and improving overall collaboration. Global fund partnership. Overall, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria deaths have fallen by almost 50% each year since the peak epidemics in countries invested by the World Fund.

However, Results Report 2020 shows that much of that progress can be lost due to the knock-on effect of COVID-19. The report warns that deaths and infections from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria may surge in the next 12 months.

“This year’s results report shows how the world, led by strong community commitments, can come together to drive the disease back.” Peter Sands, Executive Director of Global Fund. “We have made extraordinary progress, but COVID-19 threatens to reverse the profits that we all have now worked hard to achieve.

Key Results Achieved in 2019 in Countries Invested by the World Fund:

• 20.1 million people received antiretroviral therapy for HIV.
• 718,000 HIV-positive mothers were given medication to sustain their lives and prevent HIV from infecting their babies.
• 5.7 million people were tested and treated for tuberculosis.
• 160 million mosquito nets were distributed, protecting nearly 320 million people from malaria for three years.

The outcome of the 2020 Results Report is the efforts of a wide range of entities that make up the Global Fund partnership, including implementing governments, multilateral institutions, bilateral partners, civil society groups, people affected by the disease, and the private sector. Is the result of.

In 2019, the Global Fund has made strong progress in several areas. While girls are still overly affected by HIV compared to their male peers, infection rates in adolescent girls and young women have fallen 51% since 2010 in 13 priority countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Where the World Fund invests. The Global Fund also supported the purchase of 3.7 million self-test kits. Access to a variety of testing methods is fundamental to ending HIV as a public health threat.

Strategic initiative by the Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership, and WHO, which focuses on the 13 countries with the highest TB burden, has led to “missing” people with tuberculosis who have not been diagnosed, treated or reported, died or continued. The progress of the discovery of potential people is accelerating. Spread the disease to others without treatment. The gap between TB notification and TB incidence in the 13 target countries has decreased from 49% in 2014 to 33% in 2018.

To protect people from malaria, the World Fund works with partners to reduce the cost of pesticide-treated mosquito nets US $ 2 And the cost of anti-malaria treatment US $ 0.58 in 2019 – Savings bought over 14 million additional nets and helped treat malaria in over 24 million additional people.

These interests are threatened by COVID-19. The report shows that the amount of HIV testing has been reduced by 50% in some places and notifications of new TB cases have been reduced by up to 75%. This can lead to an increase in new infections as people who do not know their condition continue to convey the disease to others. Many countries have been forced to delay mosquito net distribution campaigns, leaving people vulnerable to malaria.

The Global Fund has responded swiftly to help countries address these challenges. Since then March 2020, World Fund approved about $ 700 million To a multilateral program in 103 countries and 11 to combat COVID-19 through enhanced testing, tracking and protection of frontline healthcare professionals. Adapt existing HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control to protect progress. Strengthen the system for health, prevent it from collapsing, and prepare to deploy COVID-19 treatments and vaccines when they become available.

“This is an inflection point,” Sands said. “We can abandon the benefits we have gained against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria and significantly reverse our progress towards sustainable development goals, or far more than we have been committed to. You can invest a lot of resources in and act on speed and scale. It counters both the direct impact of COVID-19 and mitigating the impact of knock-on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. “

The World Fund is a partnership aimed at accelerating the AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics. As an international fund, the Global Fund US $ 4 billion A year to support programs run by local professionals in more than 100 countries. We work with governments, civil society, technology agencies, the private sector, and people affected by the disease to challenge barriers and embrace innovation.

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