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Today, Members of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on HIV/AIDS, Global Tuberculosis, and Malaria and NTDs met with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria’s new executive director, Peter Sands.

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During the closed roundtable discussion, Mr Sands presented the investment case for the forthcoming replenishment and spoke of the Global Fund’s work in tackling the three diseases globally.

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The French Government will be hosting the sixth replenishment conference in Lyon, France on 10 October 2019. The Global Fund estimates that it will need to raise at least USD $14 billion to reach its strategy targets and contribute to the global effort to end TB by 2030. The Global Fund’s full investment case can be found here.

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Since its founding in 2002, the Global Fund has helped save over 27 million lives around the world. In 2017 alone, Global Fund supported programmes treated over 5 million people with TB. The UK has consistently been one of the Global Fund’s most supportive donors, pledging £1.2 billion at the last replenishment conference in 2016.

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At the UN High-Level Meeting on TB last year, Member States agreed to mobilise at least USD $13 billion per year to fund TB programmes globally. Currently, the Global Fund provides around 70% of all international financing for TB programmes.

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