Global Fund Grants Exceed Targets!
300 Programs Drive Global Scale-up Against AIDS, TB and Malaria! :

Three years after its creation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is proving to be a key engine behind the scale-up of the fight against the three pandemics worldwide. Despite an average age of only 15 months, Global Fund-financed programs support 220,000 people on AIDS treatment and have provided treatment for 600,000 patients with TB and 1.1 million patients with malaria. These results are ahead of mid-year targets for 2005. The Global Fund currently contributes a fifth of all external resources worldwide to fight HIV/AIDS, two-thirds of all external resources against TB and well over half against malaria. An analysis of the Global Fund’s grant portfolio shows that of the 74 grants that have reached 18 months of age, 80 percent have met or exceeded targets and that taken as a whole, the 74 grants have exceed all targets except those for the distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs).

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