Investing in Global Health Security
The Global Fund - "Investing in global health is a highly cost effective way to achieve greater security and stability, to protect communities worldwide from infectious disease and to halt emerging health threats.
The Global Fund Results Report 2017, released today, highlights the great achievements that have been made by the Global Fund partnership, supporting programs that have saved more than 22 million lives, while building healthier communities and stronger economies. We have bent the trend lines of tuberculosis and malaria – two of humanity’s ancient foes – and we have prevented AIDS from reaching its catastrophic potential.
Yet this report also demonstrates how much more we have to do. It is becoming starkly evident that young people, in particular adolescent girls and young women, face extraordinary levels of risk. In parts of Africa, young women aged 15-24 years are eight times more likely than their male peers to be living with HIV. The Global Fund supports work that breaks down gender inequalities that drive the spread of disease, and we invest in programs specifically focused on improving the health of adolescent girls and young women." (Photo: Marijke Wijnroks/UN Geneva/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)