Johannesburg – SADC Executive Secretary H.E Elias M. Magosi attended the 8th Replenishment Summit of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in South Africa tonight.
The summit, co-hosted by South Africa and the United Kingdom, gathered heads of state, government representatives, civil society, multilateral and bilateral partners, and private sector stakeholders to secure funding for global health programmes.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced pledges of USD 11.34 billion toward the Global Fund’s proposed USD 18 billion target. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for continued global cooperation, while Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands said the investment could save 23 million lives and prevent 400 million infections between 2027 and 2029.
SADC has worked with the Global Fund for more than twenty years, achieving significant milestones in the region, including 80 to 90 percent antiretroviral coverage in member states, the establishment of Wellness Centres, operationalisation of the SADC Pool Procurement Service, rollout of lenacapavir for HIV prevention, halving new HIV infections, reducing AIDS-related deaths by over 70 percent since 2010, and approaching malaria elimination in Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, and South Africa. Tuberculosis incidence has also dropped by half in South Africa and Zambia.
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