22 May 2007

GPPi coorganizes discussion on The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

On 21 May 2007, GPPi, in cooperation with the Hertie School of Governance, the Robert Koch Institute Berlin, the Berlin School of Public Health, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, organized a public discussion entitled "The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: A model for international development cooperation?". The discussion took place at the Hertie School of Governance and featured Professor Michel Kazatchkine, the new executive director of the Global Fund.

Michel Kazatchkine presented the history as well as current activities of the the Global Fund, a public/private partnership created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world’s most devastating diseases and to direct those resources (for both prevention and treatment) to areas of greatest need. Since its launch five years ago, the Global Fund has committed US$ 7.1 billion to over 450 programs in 136 countries to support the rapid scale-up of proven interventions against all three diseases. Michel Kazatchkine listed sustainability as one of the key challenges the Global Fund and the fight against diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are facing. Chancellor Angela Merkel has made the Global Fund, as an innovative model of development finance, a central item on her agenda for this year’s G8 summit. When the G8 Heads of State come together in June 2007, part of their mission will be to further increase political and financial support for the Global Fund.

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