July 26, 2024
Friends applauds inclusion of $1.2 billion for Global Fund in Senate fiscal year 2025 appropriations bill
Washington, DC – Friends of the Global Fight applauded the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs’ (SFOPS) allocation of $1.2 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in its fiscal year 2025 funding bill.
“We want to thank Subcommittee Chair Senator Christopher Coons, Ranking Member Senator Lindsey Graham and the entire SFOPS subcommittee for their steadfast support of the Global Fund,” said Chris Collins, president and CEO of Friends of the Global Fight. “With this contribution, the United States will have satisfied its three year pledge for the Global Fund’s seventh replenishment, consistent with the matching requirement. Bipartisan U.S. leadership is critical to ending the AIDS, TB and malaria epidemics and this support would save over a million lives.”
Friends also greatly appreciates that the bill would sustain critical funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and would reauthorize the program through fiscal year 2026.
In addition, the bill would provide funding for the Pandemic Fund and the committee report encourages “efforts to improve global health security in a comprehensive and coordinated way by leveraging existing bilateral and multilateral global health programs.”
U.S. funding for the Global Fund cannot exceed one-third of total contributions from all donors, requiring other donors to match U.S. contributions two-to-one.
“If enacted, this funding will avert 30 million cases of AIDS, TB and malaria and save 1.4 million lives,” said Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Friends’ Board chair and past chairman and CEO of Rabin Martin, a global health impact consultancy. “We are grateful to the Senate SFOPS subcommittee for its unwavering support of the Global Fund and in ending the AIDS, TB and malaria epidemics.”
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ABOUT FRIENDS OF THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA:
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria advocates for U.S. support of the Global Fund, and the goal to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. For more information about Friends of the Global Fight, visit www.theglobalfight.org.
ABOUT THE GLOBAL FUND:
The Global Fund is a worldwide partnership to defeat HIV, TB and malaria and ensure a healthier, safer, more equitable future for all. The partnership has saved 59 million lives since its founding in 2002. It raises and invests more than US$5 billion a year to fight the deadliest infectious diseases, challenges the injustice that fuels them, and strengthens health systems and pandemic preparedness in more than 100 of the hardest hit countries. The Global Fund unites world leaders, communities, civil society, health workers and the private sector to find solutions that have the most impact, and it takes them to scale worldwide. Learn more.
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