Over the last 20 years, the Global Fund partnership has saved 44 million lives and reduced the
annual death toll from HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria by 46% since its peak in countries where
the Global Fund invests. We, the Global Fund partnership of implementer governments, civil society, technical partners, development partners,3 the private sector and people and communities4 affected
by the three diseases, have proven that by acting together we can overcome barriers, save lives and
dramatically change the course of these three terrible pandemics.
Now we stand at a crossroads. The impact of COVID-19 has been devastating, exacerbating existing inequities, diverting critical resources, slowing access to critical HIV, TB and malaria prevention and treatment activities, and putting vulnerable people further at risk. In 2020, for the first time in our history, key programmatic results declined across all three diseases. With only eight years to go, COVID-19 has knocked us further off course from the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of ending the three epidemics by 2030.