The cancellation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria of all new programming until 2014 is unacceptable. This decision will cost lives and cripple international efforts to deliver on health-related goals, breaking promises made to some of the world’s most vulnerable people, and punishing the Global Fund’s success of the last ten years.
People living with HIV and their supporters, as well as communities affected by TB or malaria, are extremely concerned about the damage under-funding of the Global Fund is causing. We therefore demand that:
- The Global Fund Board and Secretariat mobilise the resources necessary to scale-up the response to the three diseases through a new funding opportunity for 2012, estimated at US$2 billion.
- Donors to the Global Fund – particularly governments – urgently deliver on the commitments they made to meet health goals and to fund the Global Fund at its Replenishment Meeting in 2010.
- The Global Fund hold an emergency donor conference and issue a new call for proposals before the International AIDS Conference in July 2012 to fully fund the scale-up of programmes that will fundamentally change the course of these three epidemics, and put the world on the path towards ending AIDS.
Donors and others now have 200 days, starting from 1 January to save the Global Fund.
We cannot wait until 2014 for the Global Fund to support further scale-up of programmes and life-saving treatment. We urgently call on the Global Fund to meet the timeline above and for donors and affected countries to ensure that interventions with the highest impact on the three epidemics are supported.
The clock is ticking. Millions of lives are at stake.
Signed by:
- ACT UP Philadelphia, USA
- ACTION – Advocacy to Control TB Internationally
- Action Against Aids Germany
- Action Contre le Sida (ACS), Togo
- ActionAid International
- Africa Japan Forum
- African Services Committee, USA
- AfriCASO, Senegal
- Aid for AIDS International
- AIDES, France
- AIDS & Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA)
- AIDS Action Europe
- AIDS Fondet, Denmark
- Aids Fonds, The Netherlands
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago, USA
- AIDS infoshare, Russia
- Amo Congo
- AMREF, Kenya
- APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)
- APROASE, AC, Mexico
- ARCAD-SIDA, Mali
- Association African Solidarite (AAS), Burkina Faso
- Association de Lutte contre le Sida (ALCS), Marocco
- Association of Substitution Treatment Advocates of Ukraine
- Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations (AFAO)
- Batanai HIV & AIDS Service Organization (BHASO), Zimbabwe
- CABSA, South Africa
- Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAG)
- CF “VIRTUS”, Ukraine
- Church of Scotland
- Coalition 15% for Health Cameroon
- Coalition for health promotion and social development (HEPS), Uganda
- Coalition PLUS, France
- Community of PLHIV, Uzbekistan
- Corporación Kimirina, Ecuador
- Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, Switzerland
- Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN), Lithuania
- European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)
- Family Care International, USA
- Freedom Foundation, India
- Fundación Huésped, Argentina
- GAYa NUSANTARA, Indonesia
- Global Health Advocates France (Avocats Pour la SANTE dans le Monde)
- Harm Reduction International, UK
- Health GAP, USA
- Health Works, South Africa
- Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), Uganda
- HIV i-Base, UK
- HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA), USA
- HIV/AIDS Platform, The Netherlands
- ICW Europe
- ICW Global
- ICW North America
- ImpAcTAIDS, Scotland
- Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD), Canada
- International Civil Society Support, The Netherlands
- International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, UK
- International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
- International Trade Union Confederation
- International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC)
- INTERSECT Worldwide
- Japan AIDS and Society Association (JASA)
- Latinamerican and Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN)
- Life Care and Support Centre (LICASU), Kenya
- Lutheran World Federation, Switzerland
- Médecins du Monde, France
- MOCPAT, Cameroon
- Naz Foundation International, UK/India
- NEPHAK (National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS Kenya)
- Osservatorio Italiano sull’Azione Globale contro l’AIDS, Italy
- Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, USA
- Partners In Health, USA
- Positive-Generation, Cameroon
- Restless Development, UK
- RESULTS UK
- RESULTS US
- Salud por Derecho, Spain
- SANGRAM, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
- Sonke Gender Justice, South Africa
- Starfish Greathearts Foundation, UK
- STOP AIDS NOW!, The Netherlands
- Student Global AIDS Campaign, USA
- Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG), Thailand
- Treatment Access Watch (TAW), Cameroon
- Treatment Action Group (TAG), USA
- Uganda Harm Reduction Network
- VAMP, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
- White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
- World AIDS Campaign, South Africa
- World Vision International
- 3SH, Cameroon
