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Global Fund Board affirms importance of links with health systems partnerships
2009-11-25

At its 20^th Board meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last week, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) affirmed its commitment to joint collaboration with global health partnerships on health systems strengthening. In addition to strong working relationships with public-private partnerships such as Stop TB, Roll Back Malaria and UNITAID, the Global Fund works closely with other global actors including GAVI, WHO, the World Bank, UNAIDS and, increasingly, with newer health system-focused partnerships such as the International Health Partnership (IHP+), the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), as well as HMN.

The Global Fund has shown that fighting specific diseases and support for health systems go hand in hand, said Dr. Nosa Orobaton, Deputy Executive Secretary of HMN, who attended the Addis meeting as an observer, HMN welcomes the opportunity to deepen its collaboration with the Global Fund to help countries identify their priority needs for health information, a core component of health systems strengthening.

Since 2005, the Global Fund has actively supported health systems strengthening initiatives through direct funding to countries. Over the past five years, the Fund has committed more than US1.1 billion for health systems strengthening activities, such as human resources and training, equipment and infrastructure and monitoring and evaluation, including health information systems. Since 2006, nearly 80 countries have used the HMN assessment tools to identify weaknesses in their health information systems. Based on these initial assessments, HMN has provided technical support to a number of countries to help them develop proposals for Global Fund grants.

The Global Fund Board last week approved US2.4 billion in new grants for all disease programmes, including almost US400m for health systems strengthening activities. Countries approved for funding for health systems strengthening components include Belize, Benin, Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

For further information on the Global Fund's work to support health systems strengthening, please visit: www.theglobalfund.org/en/performance/effectiveness/hss/

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