For the period 2023-2025, the European Union will contribute €715 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the European Commission announced on Wednesday 21 September in New York, where the United Nations General Assembly is meeting (UNGA-77).
This promise was made by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the Seventh Replenishment Conference for the Fund.
Established in 2002, the Global Fund aims to end these three so-called poverty diseases by 2030.
The €715 million will be financed from the EU budget. This amount is part of a larger contribution from the EU and its Member States, totalling more than €4 billion for 2023-2025.
€150 million has already been made available in 2022 from the EU budget for the Global Fund’s Covid-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) to help countries cover the costs of personal protective equipment, diagnostic tests and treatment.
“After joining forces to fight Covid-19, we need to get back on track to defeat other deadly diseases”, said Ms von der Leyen. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)