Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFTAM)
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23rd Jul, 2020
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- The petitioners urge the GFATM to issue guidance to governments to channelize their COVID-19 relief funds to emergency survival needs of KPs.
- The Global Fund aims to “attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.”
- Founded in 2002, the Global Fund is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases.
- Secretariat is in Geneva, Switzerland.
- The G8 formally endorsed the call for the creation of the Global Fund at its summit in July 2001 in Genoa, Italy
- The Global Fund was formed as an independent, non-profit foundation under Swiss law and hosted by the World Health Organization in January 2002.
- In January 2009, the organization became an administratively autonomous organization, terminating its administrative services agreement with the World Health Organization.
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