The World Health Organization (WHO) as well as Global Fund to Fight diseases like AIDS, Tuberculosis, as well as Malaria (the Global Fund) signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration. The purpose of this doc is to build health systems that are stronger and more resilient, as well as to maximize collaboration and impact in support of country, regional, and global responses to major infectious diseases.
The prior agreement, which was signed in 2018, will serve as foundation for new five-year framework. It is in line with the Global Fund Strategy for the years 2023-2028 and the General Programme of Work of WHO, both of which put communities at the centre of the health response and also address pandemic preparedness and the problems posed by climate change. The framework is compatible with larger collaboration platforms that aim to speed up nations’ assistance in pursuing the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
“Our two organizations must continue to work together to support countries to expand access to services for the three diseases as part of their journey toward universal health coverage,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO). “As global health budgets are strained, and under pressure, our two organizations must continue to work together.” “In light of slowing progress towards ending the AIDS, TB, and malaria epidemics, coupled with emerging health challenges, a stronger collaboration between WHO and the Global Fund is needed more than ever.”
The new Strategic Framework for Collaboration will further deepen and extend collaboration, which is already strong thanks to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) and the Global Fund’s (Global Fund) shared mission and commitment to assist countries.
“At a time when world is beset by interlocking and intersecting crises, from conflict to climate change, the partnership between the Global Fund and WHO is more critical than ever,” said Peter Sands, who is the Executive Director of the Global Fund. “[T]he partnership between the Global Fund and WHO is more critical than ever.” “Crises shake global systems and set gains back, with vulnerable people on planet bearing the brunt of the impact.” Organizations like ours are most productive when they work closely with national governments and other reliable partners to improve community-based and locally-controlled healthcare systems.
Consistent cooperation throughout the past few years has been a contributing factor in the following notable achievements at the country level:
Twenty nations have recently begun to deploy diversified service delivery for HIV testing, treatment, and advanced HIV illness care, in addition to virtual interventions, to reach those ignorant of their HIV status. This new method of service delivery is both more efficient and cost-effective.
Through collaboration, early guidance and surveys have been conducted on dual testing for COVID-19 and TB. This has made it possible to enhance the detection of persons who have TB due to the innovations implemented during and after the COVID-19 emergency.
Strategic actions regarding the disease enabled the acceleration of progress toward eliminating malaria. Since 2018, the WHO has recognized eight nations as being malaria-free, and a further five countries are planning to receive certification in 2023 and 2024.
The collaboration also lays the groundwork for accelerating the adoption of innovative techniques, such as the WHO Insecticide Treated Nets Guidelines for malaria and the scale-up of new, shorter therapies for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Both of these initiatives are examples of the basis that the partnership lays.
Beneficial assistance was offered in developing fifty evidence-based and costed national strategy plans aligned to the most recent WHO criteria. These plans will serve as the basis for submitting high-quality funding bids to the Global Fund.
Funding global health remains an essential area for ongoing collaboration to assist nations in developing health funding systems that are stronger, more sustainable, and more effective. The work that the WHO has done to track health expenditures in 59 countries with low and moderate incomes has shaped national conversations about health policy. The reduction of fragmentation and duplication in 13 countries has been made possible by collaborative efforts to enable cross-programme efficiency studies.
Even with this degree of achievement, there is still great deal of work which needs to be done in countries to speed progress toward eliminating epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; to establish robust health systems that are also capable of responding to the successive crises, and to build stronger communities.
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