By MIRIAM ZIMBA-
GLOBAL health partners are working together to accelerate progress towards a world free of malaria, with ambitious planning and optimised use of all funding, in order to increase impact and reach more people affected by the disease.
According to a media statement from Roll Back Malaria, there has been remarkable progress that has been made against the disease, reducing death rates and shrinking the malaria map.
But it (Roll Back Malaria) also called on the world to “strengthen the potential of individuals, communities and countries to achieve our ultimate goal – a world free from malaria.”
Pregnant women and children under the age of five years remain disproportionately affected by malaria.
Roll Back Malaria points to the fact that a child dies every minute from this preventable and curable disease.
This year, through its new funding model, the Global Fund is reinvigorating its founding principles as a partnership organisation to intensify the fight against malaria, as well as against HIV and tuberculosis.
With vibrant and inclusive country dialogue, flexibility in re-programming funds, alignment with national plans and strategies for health, the new funding model provides implementing partners with more effective means to defeat malaria, HIV and tuberculosis (TB).
Working together with partners, the Global Fund is committed to defeating malaria by investing into a partnership approach that coordinates the use of all available resources
The Global Fund is an international financing institution dedicated to attracting and disbursing resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, TB and malaria.
The Global Fund promotes partnerships between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the most effective way to help reach those in need.
This innovative approach relies on country ownership and performance-based funding, meaning that people in countries implement their own programmes based on their priorities and the Global Fund provides financing where verifiable results are achieved.
Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has supported more than 1,000 programs in more than 140 countries, providing AIDS treatment for 6.1 million people, anti-tuberculosis treatment for 11.2 million people and 360 million insecticide-treated nets for the prevention of malaria.
The Global Fund works in close collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral organizations to supplement existing efforts in dealing with the three diseases.