Global Fund Achievements
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"Global Fund Provides HIV/AIDS Drugs for 90,000 More People in
First Six Months of 2005"
Associated Press (08.23.05)
Today in Geneva, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
announced it has provided 90,000 more people with HIV/AIDS
treatment in the first six months of this year, bringing the to-
tal number of HIV/AIDS patients the fund treats up to 220,000.
This 70 percent increase put the fund ahead of its midyear tar-
gets. The Global Fund said it hopes to provide 400,000 people
treatment by year-end and 1.6 million people treatment by 2010.
The fund said 600,000 people are now receiving TB treatment
through the effort, which is primarily funded through donations
from developed-world countries. The five-year target is to ex-
tend treatment to 3.5 million people.
While "programs are on track to reach these targets set for
HIV/AIDS and TB, [programs] are behind on targets for malaria,"
said the group, which has distributed only 3.1 million insecti-
cide-impregnated bed nets to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes,
rather than the targeted 108 million. The delay comes in part
because funding has been focused on developing new, more effec-
tive drugs and strengthening malaria programs in high-prevalence
nations.
Since its 2001 launch, the Global Fund has disbursed $1.4 bil-
lion for more than 300 programs in 127 countries. Over half the
fund's allocations go fight HIV/AIDS, while 31 percent is spent
on malaria and 13 percent on TB.