New UK aid support to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

Since 2002, the Global Fund has helped save more than 27 million lives and reduced deaths from three killer infectious diseases – AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – by more than a third in the countries which it invests in.

The UK’s new three-year funding pledge will help:

• provide life-saving antiretroviral therapy to more than 3.3 million people with HIV;
• provide TB treatment and care for 2.3 million people;
• provide 120,000 people with treatment for multidrug-resistant TB;
• distribute 92 million mosquito nets to protect children and families from malaria; and
• strengthen health systems and promote global health security.

“We’re deeply proud of our efforts with the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, but far too many people still die from these diseases. We’re going to continue to invest in controlling and ultimately ending these diseases, and we will be making sure other countries contribute generously. These diseases cross borders. Therefore, our support is something that helps the poorest people in the world but is also something that keeps us safe here at home,” said International Development Secretary, Rory Stewart.

Through the new pledge, the UK government will encourage stronger private sector engagement in the fight against malaria by doubling the value of up to £100 million of investment from private sector organisations.

The British government is determined to spend aid where it is most needed and deliver the best value for money.

Original source: DFID
Published on 29 June 2019