Launched in 2002, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria was established to be the central financing engine of international efforts to turn the tide on these diseases unfairly afflicting the world’s poor.

The Global Fund employs an innovative and integrated global approach that:

• Encourages cooperation between donors, recipient governments, businesses and individuals.
• Promotes national ownership of programs with countries writing and submitting their own proposals.

Today, the Global Fund:

• Is the largest international financier of TB and malaria programs
• Is one of the three largest funders of HIV/AIDS programs in the world
• Has 550 grants in 136 countries
• And has approved $10 billion and committed $ 8.2 billion in support--the majority for sub-Saharan Africa

As of December 2007 the Global Fund has supported programs that have:

• Enabled 1.4milionpeople to begin ARV treatment
• Distributed 46 million insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent malaria
• Detected and treated 3.3 million TB cases under DOTS, the internationally-approved TB control strategy