The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Mark Dybul

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ( The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, engl. ) Is a financial instrument to combat the three major infectious diseases AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The fund global in 140 countries, is one of the most important tools to combat these diseases.

History

The Fund was established in 2002 after the G8 countries agreed on at their meeting in Genoa in 2001 on reinforcing the financing of the global fight against the three major infectious diseases AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. A year earlier urged the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the establishment of such a fund. The first Managing Director of the Fund, Richard Feachem, from 2002 to the end of March 2007 at the office. His successor, Michel Kazatchkine announced in January 2012 after fraud allegations his resignation on March 2012 on. It was re- created the post of Director General; February 1, 2012 the former president of Sovereign Bank Gabriel Jaramillo takes office for a year.

Financing

The organization has so far (as of 2010 ) to the tune of 19.3 billion U.S. dollars of States and private donors are collected and thus funded more than 572 programs in 144 countries. Thus, the Fund provides a quarter of global funds to fight AIDS available. In addition, two-thirds of all funds to fight tuberculosis and three quarters are all funds for malaria from the resources of the Fund.

By far the most important donors are the United States, who alone have pledged 6.5 billion U.S. dollars to the fund 2002-2011, of which 4.3 billion have been disbursed. By comparison, Germany in the period 2002-2010 contributed 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

At the international AIDS conference in Mexico City in August 2008 it was announced that the inquiry in aid was three times as high as in previous years lie and currently (August 2008) at 6.4 billion U.S. dollars for 97 States.

As before, the demand exceeds the resources world paid much, and I still have of the world's approximately 33 million AIDS patients, only 5.2 million effective therapy ..

Nevertheless, distinguished for the current increase phase from ( replenishment phase ) of the Fund, which will take place in 2010, a widening gap. Due to a fall in the middle there is the danger that so far with drugs -patients in future may no longer could receive and form by the dashed therapy resistance. The UNAIDS Michel Sidibé Generalsekrätär speaks in this context even of a ' HIV Nightmare'.

Achievements

According to its own description, the Global Fund has provided for and carried out 120 million HIV tests since its inception in 2002 to 2010 a total of 2.8 million people with antiretroviral therapy ( ART). In addition, 7 million new cases were diagnosed infectious tuberculosis and treated. In order to curb malaria, the fund 122 million mosquito nets and 142 million doses of medication against malaria afforded to endemic regions.

Corruption

In January 2011, the Associated Press reported that significant cases of corruption were uncovered in GFATM - funded programs. The internal investigation department of the Global Fund has so far examined only a small part of the funded programs; therefore went two-thirds of the funding lost through corruption.

In the course of this research, the development program of the United Nations ( UNDP), which is responsible for more than half of the expenditure of the Global Funds to invoke diplomatic immunity to deny the inspectors of GFATM access to internal documents.

In response to these incidents, Sweden will hold its annual donation of $ 85 million to hold back until the corruption problems are solved. Even Germany, the third largest contributor, has suspended payments temporarily.

Policy

The Fund is committed to, inter alia, that international patents block production of cheaper generic drugs, so-called generic, not longer.