Celebrating the Ten-Year Fight for World Health
The Global Fund is marking its 10th anniversary, and that is worth a celebration! Over the previous decade the Global Fund has financed and catalyzed unprecedented success, saving an estimated 100,000 lives each month.
In partnership with Le Monde diplomatique a special 4 page supplement called “Ten-Year Fight for World Health“ was launched earlier this month to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Global Fund. It features contributions from Kofi Annan (“A war chest”), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (“Toward a world without HIV”), Michèle Barzach President of Friends of the Global Fund Europe (“Europe’s engagement”) and an opinion piece from Michel Kazatchkine (“Finding a way to remobilise”) outlining the lifesaving work of the Global Fund from 2002 when the Fund was created to 2012, the results and the impact of the Global fund in its 10 years of existence.
The 10th anniversary of the Global Fund will also feature a giant collage of photos of people who are involved in the struggle against epidemic diseases, including some of the world’s leaders, and you can be alongside them. The more people we can see, the better we can show that there is a global movement for change. All you need to do is to take a photo of yourself, we at Pacific Friends already submitted our photos (see our Facebook page).
More even, at the 10 year mark the Global Fund also gets ready for a new chapter, as Natasha F. Bilimoria (our colleague at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) explains in this article in the Huffington Post.
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Pacific Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a high-level advocacy organisation which seeks to mobilise regional awareness of the serious threat posed by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to societies and economies in the Pacific. In pursuing its goals Pacific Friends has a specific interest in highlighting the need to protect the rights of women and children in the Pacific.
In February 2009, Pacific Friends was launched under the auspices of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to join the group of Friends of the Global Fund organisations. Pacific Friends also raises support for the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the vital role it plays in resourcing effective country-based plans to reduce the impact and spread of the three pandemics.
Following generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to join the group of Friends of the Global Fund organisations, Pacific Friends has established itself under the auspices of the University of New South Wales. Through its advocacy Pacific Friends also raises support for the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the vital role it plays in resourcing effective country-based plans to reduce the impact and spread of the three pandemics.
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