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| 2000 || December || Antecedent || United States president [[wikipedia:Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton]] publicly declares [[wikipedia:AIDS|AIDS]] an international security threat at a [[wikipedia:World AIDS Day|World AIDS Day]] commemoration.<ref name="Global plagues and the Global Fund: Challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria"/> ||
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| 2001 || || Background || HIV/AIDS, [[wikipedia:tuberculosis|tuberculosis]] and [[wikipedia:malaria |malaria]] together account for 11.4% of all disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) globally and 31.5% in Africa.<ref name="Global plagues and the Global Fund: Challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria">{{cite web|title=Global plagues and the Global Fund: Challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria|url=https://bmcinthealthhumrights.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-698X-3-2|website=biomedcentral.com|accessdate=29 April 2017|doi=10.1186/1472-698X-3-2}}</ref> ||
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| 2001 || April || || The foundation of the Global Fund is made concrete by [[wikipedia:Secretary-General of the United Nations|Secretary-General of the United Nations]] [[wikipedia:Kofi Annan|Kofi Annan]]'s call to action.<ref name="Global plagues and the Global Fund: Challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria"/> ||
| 2004 || June || || The Global Funds holds its Eighth Board Meeting. The Board approves fourth round of grant proposals (US$968 million for 69 grants in 50 countries).<ref name="Global health the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria is responding to challenges but needs better information and documentation for performancebased funding : report to congressional committees."/><ref name="Global Fund Overview"/> || [[wikipedia:Switzerland|Switzerland]] ([[wikipedia:Geneva|Geneva]])
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| 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 [[wikipedia:tuberculosis|tuberculosis]] patients with directly observed short-course therapy, given more than 300,000 people new, more effective treatments for [[wikipedia:malaria|malaria]], and supplied more than 1.35 million families with insecticide-treated mosquito nets.<ref name="Global health the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria is responding to challenges but needs better information and documentation for performancebased funding : report to congressional committees."/> ||
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| 2005 || April 25 || ||The Global Fund approves 33 grants to enter phase 2.<ref name="Global health the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria is responding to challenges but needs better information and documentation for performancebased funding : report to congressional committees."/> ||
| 2014 || March || || The United Kingdom charity [[wikipedia:Comic Relief|Comic Relief]] announces that it has raised £2 million for the Global Fund.<ref name="Global Fund Overview"/> ||
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| 2015 || || Backround || 214 million cases of [[wikipedia:malaria |malaria]] are reported during the year resulting in 438,000 deaths. Also, 1.1 million people would die of AIDS-related illnesses in 2015.<ref name="Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria"/> ||
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| 2015 || || || The proportion of the Global Fund’s investments focused on girls and women increases to 60%, from 46% in 2010.<ref name="Reaching vulnerable populations: lessons from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria">{{cite web|title=Reaching vulnerable populations: lessons from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria|url=http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/95/2/16-179192/en/|website=who.int|accessdate=6 May 2017}}</ref> ||
==See also==
*[[Timeline of malaria]]
*[[Timeline of tuberculosis]]
