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27 April 2016
Global Fund Board Approves Strategy 2017-2022
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today approved a Strategy 2017-2022 to maximize impact, strengthen systems for health, promote and protect human rights and gender equality, and mobilize additional resources…

The Strategy, named “Investing to End Epidemics,” sets the groundwork for more effective implementation of health programs, so that partners can reach more people and achieve greater impact. The Global Fund partnership fosters innovative approaches that meet diverse country needs, with the common goal of ending HIV, TB and malaria. For good…

The Strategy adopted by the Board emerged from extensive consultations and broad engagement over the past two years. Hundreds of partners participated in strategy discussions at Partnership Forums in 2015 that were convened in Addis Ababa, Bangkok and Buenos Aires, and contributed through an e-Forum that collected views from all over the world.

The new strategy is fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals embraced by member states of the United Nations in September 2015, with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach that seeks to reach those most in need, reduce inequalities, and support sustainable transition across the development continuum as countries move toward self-sustainability.

The new strategy underlines the Global Fund’s commitment to contribute to building resilient and sustainable systems for health to support national strategies for health and national disease-specific strategic plans in each country. Strengthening data systems, and using existing data more effectively, is a key factor…