Civil society organizations are petitioning the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to end its “discriminatory” practice and increase its funding for tuberculosis ahead of a board decision in November.
The Global Fund provides the lion’s share of international funding for TB at 76%. But for years, advocates say the portion TB is getting as part of the fund’s global disease split — the percentage of funding that goes to each of its three priority diseases — is significantly behind HIV and malaria despite TB having the most deaths among the three diseases. In 2022, 1.3 million people died from TB while 630,000 and 608,000 died from HIV and malaria, respectively.
Now TB advocates want a fairer split — 33% for each of the diseases. Their petition has so far garnered over 10,000 signatures.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
