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  • Memorandum from the South African Civil Society to the German Government
    • September, 28, 2010
    • PDF, English
    • Civil society organisations called on the German government to maintain its commitment to development assistance, and in particular its standing as the third largest donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, by pledging an additional €1.5 billion for the next 3 years.
    • by Vuyiseka Dubula, General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign
    • On behalf of The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27, incorporating the AIDS Law Project, AIDS Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (ARASA), World AIDS Campaign (WAC), AIDS Response, Social Justice Coalition (SJC), Equal Education (EE)

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October 2010: Global Fund Replenishment Meeting Ends with Massive Funding Shortfall: Millions of Lives Hang in the Balance

On September 28, 2010, protests were organized in Cape Town as part of the Global Week of Action to call for just health policies all around the world.

New York, October 15th, 2010: At the conclusion replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today in New York, donors fell far short of investing the $20 billion needed to fully fund the fight against the three pandemics.

Instead of the doubling of funding commitments needed to accelerate HIV, TB and malaria program scale up, countries announced initial increases averaging approximately 25% --or, in the case of some donors, did not pledge at all. This shortfall, unless corrected, will mean that the Global Fund will have to reject high quality country proposals, and dramatically slow down the pace of scale up.

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End of September 2010: Against Aids, Malaria, Tuberculosis - The Protests for the full Replenishment of the Global Fund continue!

On September 28, 2010, protests were organized in Cape Town and New York City - and also in Berlin and Bremerhaven – as  part of the Global Week of Action. In Bremerhaven, in the north of Germany, more than a 100 young people gathered to dance for just health policies all around the world.

Action against AIDS Germany had organized the protest action together with Dance4Life, the world's largest Youth movement against HIV/AIDS and the Youth Project Peer Up! Please visit our our photo gallery of the dance for life in Bremenhaven.

MSF also hosted a mini-campaign in Berlin as part of the Global Week of Action. With the banner “Against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis:  No Cuts but Raises for the The Global Fund” the campaigners demonstrated in front of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Demonstrators also gathererd outside the German Consulate in Cape Town and called for the full replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria! All details on the web site of the Treatment Action Campaign of South Africa.

In addition, we launched a little Twitter action, asking several German Members of Parliament if they plan to hold their promises with regards to the funding of the Global Fund.  You are invited to retweet our messages.

Update on the Global Week of Action in South Africa from TAC

In Cape Town the picket was at the German consulate. 600 people attended and the following partners were present in the picket:  TAC, ARASA, WAC, Congress of South African Trade unions and MSF. 

The TAC Western Secretary was supposed to hand over the memorandum to the Head of Economic Cooperation, Mrs Koch, who was meant to accept the memorandum. Instead the Consul General came out  and the TAC General Secretary summarised our demands and offered them an opportunity to say a word.

He said “ Germany is still committed to the fight against HIV and TB and they further have increased their support to South Africa but he would not sign the memorandum.

After the German consulate picket, the French consulate called and said that they had heard about the demonstration and that they would like to meet to discuss the French government commitments to the global fund. 

In Johannesburg we had a picket outside the Italian Consulate, which was attended by 250 and local partners like COSATU and SAMAC. Initially the Italian Ambassador refused to come out and so the TAC Gauteng Provincial and Deputy Chairperson went inside where he read and signed the memorandum. The ambassador did not want to come out and so he sent Mr Dario Armini, the First Secretary. Mr Armini acknowledged that Italy had not made payments since 2008, but said the payment would be made before December.

He also said that Italy would pledge to the Global Fund at the replenishment conference. TAC said that if they did not pledge that they would come back and picket.

September 2010 Protest Week: Against Aids, Malaria, Tuberculosis. No Cuts but Raises to the German Funding of the Global Fund!

The federal government of Germany must ensure that this year's replenishment conference of the Global Fund against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at the beginning of October 2010 will be success. This presupposes that Germany distances itself from its own plans to reduce Germany's funding of the Global Fund. This was demanded by the Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO) and Action against Aids Germany.

Civil society organizations protested on 9-15th September jointly before the Federal Chancellery in Berlin against the planned cuts. "A reduction of the German contribution to the Global Fund is not acceptable. That would mean a severe setback for the international HIV / AIDS fight,"said Sonja Weinreich, spokeswoman for the VENRO section health. Million people were affected, mostly mothers and their children.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan visited the protest week of the Action against Aids Germany and other Germany civil organisations at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin on September, 10, 2010. HIV-positive, malaria and tuberculosis patients were waiting in front of a treatment tent. An imitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel announced cuts to the German funding for the Global Fund and closed the treatment tent. The people waiting in the queue protested in vain - and subsequently died.

Archive Links and Documents

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Documents

  • The Global Fund 2010: Innovation and Impact
    • March 2010
    • PDF, English
    • Global Fund-supported programs saved an estimated 4.9 million lives by the end of 2009.
    • The Global Fund 2010: Innovation and Impact is based on results through the end of 2009.
    • by the The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  • Supporting Community Responses to Malaria
    • January 2010
    • PDF, English
    • A training manual to strengthen capacities of community based organizations in application processes of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This training manual is a product of the STOP MALARIA NOW! advocacy campaign
    • Hard copies can be ordered at STOP MALARIA NOW! 
  • Gender Equality Strategy Plan of Action 2009 - 2012
    • July 2009
    • PDF, English
    • Gender inequalities are a strong driver of the HIV/AIDS, TB and
      malaria epidemics and close attention needs to be paid to how such inequalities fuel the spread of disease and affect the ability of women and girls, men and boys to access healthcare and other services equitably.
    • The Global Fund
  • A Beginner’s Guide to the Global Fund - Full Version
    • July 2009
    • PDF, Englisch
    • The purpose of this guide is to provide a broad introduction to the Global Fund for people who have little or no prior experience of the Fund – ranging from new CCM members, to NGOs, to government officials, to new sub-recipients, to journalists who have to write about the Fund.
    • by David Garmaise, Aidspan
  • Chair’s Summary: The Global Fund’s Second Replenishment (2008-2010) Mid-Term Review
    • April 2009
    • PDF, English
    • The purpose of the meeting, hosted by the government of Spain in  Cáceres, 30 March – 1 April 2009, was to review the results of the Fund and to raise additional resources for the current replenishment period. The meeting did not result in any additional pledges, apart from a miniscule commitment of $13 million additional from Spain. Germany's representative expressed some positive indications that they are 'willing to consider' additional contributions.
    • What was particularly troubling about the meeting and the behavior of donors, was the fact that each of them warmly welcomed the results presented by the Global Fund Secretariat, and congratulated the accomplishments of countries so far.  Then, in the same breath, they claimed they could not, or would not, find resources so that the Global Fund can continue to fund performing grants and support scale up in line with the Fund's goals and with the target size we agreed to of $6-8 billion by 2010.
  • Letter to the Finance Ministers of the G7
    • February 2009
    • PDF, English
    • Letter to the Finance Ministers of the G7 on behalf of international civil society groups, health organizations, and faith-based groups regarding the current funding gap faced by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
      Tuberculosis and Malaria