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Focus
Combating HIV/AIDS – the German input
US study warns of dramatic rise in the HIV infection rate
People living with HIV as target group counsellors in Argentina
Empowerment of girls in Africa
Russia's underrated epidemic
Big sales, little education
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Work on the development of vaccines
02/2003
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Mobilising new financial resources
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
To fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, much more money will be needed than has been available to date. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan puts the figure at US$ 7-10 billion per year. Therefore at his initiative the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) was founded in the spring of 2001 to mobilise additional money. By July 2002, various donors had made a total of $ 2.1 billion available. Since then, however, the sum has hardly risen. Germany’s input to the GFATM will total 200 million euros (about $ 200 million) over the next five years.
The fund, an independent foundation based in Geneva since the beginning of 2002, is oriented on results, disbursing resources in tranches. The World Bank acts as the fund’s trustee. Members of the GFATM Board, the fund’s central decision-making organ, are donor and developing countries and representatives of civil society, all with equal rights. Germany is represented in a voting group along with France, Spain and Russia. As the only representative of a North NGO, Dr Christoph Benn, Head of Department for Health and Policy Studies at the German Institute for Medical Mission, in Tübingen, was appointed to the Board of Management.
At country level, national coordinating bodies (CCMs) composed of representatives of government and NGO services that are active on-site select programmes for support which they submit to the fund as ‘Country Proposals’. Since end-April 2002 the fund has approved 50 applications for financing from 40 countries, with a total value of more than US$ 1.6 billion over five years. The first payments are to be made soon to, among other countries, Tanzania, Ghana and Haiti. A supervisory board meeting at the end of January was to decide on a second round of 150 applications. In view of the huge demand from the partner countries, mobilising fresh resources faces the GFATM with a great challenge.
Contact: michael.adelhardt@gtz.de, Tel. ++49 (0)6196 79-1509
Internet: www.globalfundatm.org
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