April 30, 2019
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Maintaining the U.S. share to the Global Fund is critical and good policy.By law, the U.S. can only cover up to 33% of the Global Fund’s total budget, meaning for every $1 the U.S. contributes, the Global Fund must secure $2 from other donors.
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The Global Fund needs at least $14 billionfrom all donors in its next three-year funding period (2020-2022) to maintain the progress we’ve made and get the world back on track to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. |
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A contribution of $4.68 billion ($1.56 billion for 3 years) is needed for the U.S. to maintain its leadership at the 33% level. But the Administration has recommended new restrictions for U.S. contributions to the Global Fund, proposing the U.S. reduce its share from 33% to 25%. The cut would create a significant funding gap of $2.3 billion. |
A new 25% U.S. funding cap would seriously undermine the work of the Global Fund.U.S. commitments to the Global Fund drive giving from other donors, but that leveraging power is only effective up to a certain point. Studies suggest that matching ratios lower than 1:2 (in this case, one U.S. dollar for every two dollars contributed by other donors) have noticeably less power to leverage other contributions than more generous matching rates.1 |
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A decreased U.S. share to the Global Fund could lead to a $2.3 billion shortfall.
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U.S. Support to the Global Fund
Non-U.S. Support to the Global Fund
Minimum Required for Replenishment
$2.3 billion at work through the Global Fund
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$2.3 billion could provide an additional 122 million bed nets to protect children and families from malaria.That’s equivalent to the total number of nets2 distributed to the following countries in 2017:
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Benin
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Kenya
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Sudan
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| *Assumes the U.S. will appropriate $1.56 billion to the Global Fund for each of the next three years. $2.3 billion represents the difference in U.S. support to the Global Fund if the U.S. reduced its share from a 33% match to a 25% match. | |
1Dove, K. E. (2000). Conducting a successful capital campaign. 2The Global Fund. https://data-service.theglobalfund.org/. |