Year/period |
Month and date |
Type of event |
Event |
Location
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1993 |
|
Antecedent |
The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a "global public health emergency".[2] |
|
2000 |
January |
Antecedent |
The United Nations Security Council calls an unprecedented session on the threat to Sub-Saharan Africa of HIV/AIDS, and prompts the United States government to appoint a National Science Council on the security threat posed by Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases.[2] |
|
2000 |
July |
Antecedent |
"GFATM" " The Fund was born out of discussions at the Okinawa G8 Summit in July 2000"[2] |
Japan
|
2000 |
December |
Antecedent |
United States president Bill Clinton himself publicly declares AIDS an international security threat at a World AIDS Day commemoration.[2] |
|
2001 |
|
Background |
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria together account for 11.4% of all disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) globally and 31.5% in Africa.[2] |
|
2001 |
April |
|
"GFATM foundation" "was made concrete by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's call to action in April 2001."[2] |
|
2001 |
June |
|
"Bolstered by the subsequent United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in June 2001"[2] |
|
2001 |
July |
|
"Bolstered by the G8 Summit in Genoa, July 2001"[2] |
Switzerland
|
2002 |
January |
Foundation |
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is established as a private Swiss foundation to increase spending for the prevention and treatment for the three diseases.[3][4] |
Switzerland (Geneva)
|
2002 |
April |
|
The Global Fund announces its first round of grants, through which $616 million for 36 countries would be dispersed over two years.[3][2][4] |
|
2002 |
July |
|
"in his July 2002 speech to the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, GFATM executive director Richard Feachem reiterated this dedication. He stated that the first round of grants "will double the current number of people receiving Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) in the developing world and in Africa HAART recipients will increase six fold as a result of these commitments""[2] |
|
2003 |
January |
|
Board approves second round of grant proposals.[3] |
|
2003 |
October |
|
Board approves third round of grant proposals.[3] |
|
2004 |
June |
|
Board approves fourth round of grant proposals.[3] |
|
2005 |
March |
|
The Global Fund reports that across all grants, it has provided antiretroviral treatment to 130,000 people with AIDS, tested 1,000,000 people voluntarily for HIV, supported 385,000 tb patients with directly observed short-course therapy, given more than 300,000 people new, more effective treatments for malaria, and supplied more than 1.35 millionj families with insecticide-treated mosquito nets.[3] |
|
2005 |
April 25 |
|
The Global Fund approves 33 grants to enter phase 2.[3] |
|
2010 |
October |
|
"In October 2010, the administration announced a three-year (FY11-FY13), $4 billion pledge to the Global Fund – the first time the U.S. made a multi-year pledge to the Global Fund."[5] |
|
2013 |
February |
Policy |
The Global Fund announces a new funding model, under which funding allocations would be determined for each eligible country based on calculations of country income and national disease burden.[1] |
|