More great news on the Global Fund
If you remember back in March, when we met with global leaders in The Hague, the Global Fund released some impressive reports detailing their work to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Now, just a few months later, they’ve released new data, and the results are astounding:
- 2.8 million people on life-saving AIDS treatment
- 7 million people treated for TB
- 122 million bednets distributed to protect families from malaria
Those are increases of 22%, 30%, and, 39% respectively just since June 2009! Additional results showed that 930,000 HIV-positive pregnant women have received treatment to reduce mother-to-child transmission of the virus; 120 million HIV counseling and testing sessions have been conducted; and 4.9 million basic care and support services have been provided to AIDS orphans and vulnerable children since the Global Fund started financing grants in 2003.
These new statistics are living proof that investments in the Global Fund are working; in fact, the Global Fund now estimates that it has saved 5.7 million lives.
But just throwing out statistics – even if they are impressive – can often be less impactful than the power of one person’s story. Watch how investments in the Global Fund saved the life of one young man in Cote D’Ivoire, and how he has since been inspired to give back to his community:
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11/06/2010 at 12:50 pm
Wow, what a powerful 4 minutes, people like the guy in the video completely inspire me, for someone who has so much against him he still finds it in himself to help others, a lesson we can all learn from,extremely moving.
12/06/2010 at 10:53 am
Thanks ONE, just when I was feeling the exhaustion of this long, long journey of campaigning for equality and justice in the developing world your video appears and I again realise why I do all that I do. Now is not the time to give up the fight, together we have achieved so much, I look forward to doing all that I need to do to ensure that we achieve even more!
19/06/2010 at 11:12 am
As an African, working on a program that provides care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS and also Orphans and Vulnerable Children, I know and have seen the great impact such interventions have made on the lives of people who have already lost hope. I am so inspired by the success stories coming from the beneficiaries who have benefited from these interventions. To me this is the essence of living i.e. being able to give hope to people who have lost hope, putting a smile of their faces. I am so happy to be part of this global move and as the days go by I constantly seek ways to do more and making every day count because I know that so much more still needs to be done…