Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria

Published purpose

This project supports countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on programs to fight Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV or AIDS), tuberculosis and malaria. The project also supports countries to recover from COVID-19 through strengthening health systems and future pandemic preparedness and response. Project activities include: (1) procuring and delivering approximately 6,329,000 antigen rapid diagnostic tests to low-income and lower middle-income countries. The most severely-affected countries in Africa are expected to benefit from 75% of the supplies, and 25% would go to the hardest-hit countries in Asia; (2) supporting new approaches to continue access to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria services during the pandemic. These include virtual health service delivery, door-to-door delivery of mosquito nets, and dual COVID-19 and tuberculosis screening programs; and (3) supporting gender-based violence prevention and post-violence care programs, in the context of increased gender and intimate partner violence during COVID-19 lockdowns.