The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reached $11.34 billion of its $18 billion target during its highly anticipated high-level pledging event in Johannesburg on Friday. This is the organization’s eighth replenishment and will fund its work between 2026 and 2029.
While the global health sector expressed disappointment that top donors reduced their support and the overall target fell short, the sector also praised the unexpected United States pledge of $4.6 billion.
The wild card of the event was the U.S. — the fund’s largest donor, accounting for 33% of the organization’s total funding — given that the country dismantled its foreign aid infrastructure this year and pulled out of many of its multilateral commitments.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
