Global Funds for 2022 : Fight against HIV, TB, malaria saves 50 million lives

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Fight against HIV, TB, malaria saves 50 million lives: Global Fund_awwaken
Fight against HIV, TB, malaria saves 50 million lives: Global Fund_awwaken

Over the past 20 years, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria have saved Global funds for 2022 saves 50 million lives, the Global Funds said Monday.

Global partnership created in 2002 to combat the three deadly diseases said in its annual report that death rates had been halved since then.

A Climate change, conflicts, and the Covid-19 pandemic are colliding crises that “threaten to knock us backward.”

Next week, the Global Fund will hold a replenishment conference in New York to raise funds for its program from 2024 to 2026.

Twenty million lives  saved if governments, multilateral agencies, bilateral partners, and civil society groups provided funding.

HIV, tuberculosis and malaria efforts have seen a decline for the first time in the history of the Global Fund due to the pandemic.

In spite of this, it said Monday that its massive investment in counteracting the downturn has paid off.Global Fund has invested over $4.4 billion since March 2020 in fighting the pandemic and mitigating its effects.

Global funds for 2022

It is important to accelerate our efforts to recover lost ground and get back on track to end HIV, TB and malaria by 2030, according to Fund chief Peter Sands.

Global commitment and community leadership could force the world’s deadliest infectious diseases into retreat, according to the report.

Last year, nearly a third of all international financing for HIV was provided by the Global Fund for 2022, which said 23.3 million people received antiretroviral therapy, up from 21.9%.

A total of 12.5 million people worldwide were reached with prevention services after dropping in 2020.

However, around 10 million people live with the virus without access to lifesaving medicine.

While the number of AIDS-related deaths has dropped by 50% since 2010. Last year’s death rate was still far higher than expected.

Died from Tb

In addition, the pandemic crippled the fight against tuberculosis, with many resources diverted to Covid-19.

Its estimated that 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020, making it the world’s second deadliest infectious disease behind Covid.

Although 76% of all international TB funding comes from the Global Fund for 2022. Its program have shown signs of recovery.

As of 2021, 5.3 million people were receiving treatment, including 110,000 for drug-resistant TB.

Malaria Infection

Malaria deaths in 2020 increased 12% due to interrupted services caused by the pandemic, to an estimated 627,000.

Global Fund  for 2022 , officials said 280 million suspected cases tested and 148 million treated last year after a rapid scale-up of programs.

Distributed 133 million mosquito nets at the same time.

 

 

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