U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took to Twitter to commend Germany for its €1.3 billion pledge to the Global Fund — an international organization and movement to fight infectious diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The United States is set to host the Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York City Sept. 19, according to a White House briefing statement.
“We applaud Germany’s €1.3 billion @GlobalFund pledge, which will advance the world’s effort to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria,” Blinken said in his Sept. 8 post on Twitter. “The United States will join Germany and all donors to help stop the spread of these deadly infectious diseases by 2030.”
The White House announced in August that President Joe Biden would be hosting the Replenishment Conference, according to the briefing statement.
The U.S. is a founding member and the largest single donor to the Global Fund. It has contributed nearly $20 billion since the organization's founding in 2002, according to the briefing statement. Through a 20-year total investment of more than $53 billion, the Global Fund is responsible for saving 44 million lives as well as reducing the combined death rate of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.
The Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment Conference investment case will request at least $18 billion from donors to end those public health threats by 2030. Biden’s 2023 budget includes a request for $2 billion in pledges to the Global Fund, the first part of a total planned $6 billion three-year pledge, the briefing statement reported.
