Learning Guide: Strengthening Knowledge on The Global Fund Processes for Transgender Communities

Between 2000 and 2001, a new fund was conceived by the G8 (informal forum of the Great Powers) because existing aid programs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria were viewed as inadequate and incapable of scaling up quickly enough to meet pressing disease burdens and deaths (especially deaths related to HIV and AIDS). The purpose of the Global Fund is "to attract, manage, disburse additional resources through a new public-private partnership that will make sustainable and significant contribution to the reduction of infections, illness and death, thereby mitigating the impact caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in countries in need, and contributing to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development Goals" (Global Fund 2002).