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Add to Preferred SourcesThe Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria embraced collective action toward ending epidemics, strengthening health systems and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030.
At the Board’s 40th meeting, partners discussed the Global Fund’s main priority for 2019: its next Replenishment, to be hosted by France in October 2019. The Board reviewed essential elements in making the case for greater investment in health, as well as mobilization campaign plans, to be discussed at greater detail at a Preparatory Replenishment meeting in New Delhi, India, in February 2019.
Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund, pointed to five foundational factors: The Global Fund plays a vital and irreplaceable role in delivering the Sustainable Development Goal agenda; enables greater global health security; is a powerful partner in tackling some of the worst aspects of gender inequality; plays a unique role in addressing health inequalities including human rights barriers to health; and has a consistent record of delivering results – saving lives and making progress toward the ultimate goal of ending the epidemics.
“We will not achieve the SDG 3 target of ending the epidemics by simply continuing along the current path,” said Sands. “We need more resources, more innovation and better execution. Attaining our objectives will require renewed energy and determination from all of us.”
Greater partnerships are essential, in the context of an evolving landscape on global health, where the Global Fund has aligned its work with multiple organizations in the Global Action Plan for SDG 3.
With Replenishment coming, the Board supported a revised approach to private sector engagement and innovative financing. Founded as a public-private partnership, the Global Fund looks forward to creating further partnerships with the private sector for innovative solutions and alternative funding mechanisms.
Reviewing the Global Fund’s work plan for 2019, the Board approved a budget for operating expenses in 2019.
The Board reviewed the Global Fund’s strategic performance framework and key performance indicators, providing an overview of progress towards the Global Fund’s strategy targets and objectives, oversight of global and regional disease trends, and Global Fund grant and corporate performance.
Original source: Global Fund
Published on 15 November 2018