Mena Friends of Global Fund

History

Timeline of the Global Fund of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control

In 2000, 147 leaders, heads of states and governments, gathered at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) and adopted the Third Millennium Development Goals, also known as the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration committed signatories to controlling the spread of AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and other dangerous diseases and epidemics by the year 2015; and providing all possible human and financial resources and technical expertise necessary to achieve this goal.

After several meetings for the leaders of Global Fund in Japan, Nigeria and Italy, the foundation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was declared in January 2002 based in Geneva. This step was initiated in order to announce the formal launch of the fund.

The fund was established in order to serve as a "Funding Mechanism,” not an executor. Its main role revolves around “Cooperating with countries and interested governments in order to ensure the recruitment and provision of support and material resources needed to enable the fund to launch, execute and activate existing or proposed programs for treatment, prevention and control of these diseases”.

The Fund follows the principle of "Funding Based on Performance” according to the methodology based on the balance between resources distribution and criteria of evaluation, follow-up and transparent and independent accountability. 

The Global Fund has been able to attract around 9.8 billion dollars for funding purposes between 2001 and 2008. So far, around 7 billion dollars have been dedicated to 450 aid grants directed to 136 different countries around the world.