The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. This partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities represents a new approach to international health financing. The Global Fund works in close collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral organizations to supplement existing efforts dealing with the three diseases.

While Global Fund grants support disease-specific interventions, they also enable countries to strengthen health systems by, for example, making improvements to infrastructure and providing training to those who deliver services. The Global Fund estimates that annually it provides around 57 percent of all international financing for TB, 60 percent for malaria and 23 percent of all financing for HIV.

The Global Fund awards and administers grants based on strict standards that require programs to reach specific targets throughout the life of a grant. Funding is tied to performance, with money flowing to programmes that perform well.

The Global Fund has been among the first funders to transparently measure and report on its progress against the indicators included in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, an international agreement to increase efforts in harmonization, alignment and managing aid for results with a set of monitorable actions and indicators.

The Global Fund remains committed to working in partnership to scale up the fight against the diseases, meet the Millennium Development Goals and realize its vision of a world free of the burden of AIDS, TB and malaria.