title: Investing to end epidemics: the role of the Global Fund to control TB by 2030.
abstract: The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provides over three-quarters of all international financing towards TB programs with US$4.7 billion disbursed, supporting provision of treatment for 13.2 million patients with smear-positive TB and 210 000 patients with multidrug-resistant TB in over 100 countries since 2002. In 2013, the Global Fund launched a new funding model that, among others, is advancing strategic investments to maximize impact, addressing 'missing' TB cases, enhancing a synergistic response to TB/HIV dual epidemics, and building resilient and sustainable systems for health. A new Global Fund Strategy is under development through consultation with various stakeholders, with which the Global Fund will work to play a more catalytic role and foster innovations to end the TB epidemic.
authors.affiliation: Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Chemin de Blandonnet 8, Vernier - Geneva 1214, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kunii
authors.affiliation: Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Chemin de Blandonnet 8, Vernier - Geneva 1214, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mohammed A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Yassin
authors.affiliation: Strategy, Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Chemin de Blandonnet 8, Vernier - Geneva 1214, Switzerland Eliud.Wandwalo@theglobalfund.org.
authors.forename: Eliud
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wandwalo
mesh_terms: D060740:Disease Eradication / Q000191:economics*; D058872:Epidemics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005381:Financing, Organized; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D040841:Resource Allocation; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: End epidemic; Innovation; Partnership; Strategic investment for impact; The Global Fund