Save 3 million children's lives by 2015

Simple prevention tools like mosquito nets are already helping to save almost 500 African children’s lives every day. And, we can save at least another 3 million children’s lives by 2015 - if we make smart investments in preventing, diagnosing and treating malaria.

To save these 3 million lives, it would cost just 3.8 billion pounds a year. That’s 50% less than the 5.2 billion a year that we spend on fake tans and hair loss each year!

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria represents two-thirds of international malaria funding. And, if the Global Fund has the extra money it needs, it will get us a long way towards saving 3 million children’s lives from malaria. Not to mention the millions more that will be helped by the Global Fund’s work on TB and HIV. In Spring of next year, governments are getting together to decide how much more money to give the Global Fund. Now is the time for donors to step up and declare they will

FUND THE FUND

Together with Malaria No More UK, we are asking you to sign our petition asking the British Government to double what it gives to the Global Fund. The Government has said it wants to increase the amount it gives the Fund – but they haven’t said how much, and we need to make sure they’re doing all they can to save lives, and setting an example for the rest of the world to follow.
 
 
 
 

Thank you for adding your voice to those calling on the government to Fund the Fund

To ensure that the Fund receives as wide a base of support as possible, and to ensure that the naysayers do not overpower the support, we are also asking you to write to your MP expressing your support for the UK Government taking a leading role in funding the Fund. You can do this using the form below:

Key Facts about the Global Fund

  • The Global Fund is the largest single source of funding for malaria, contributing over two-thirds of international funding.
  • The Fund has already saved an estimated 7.7 million lives in 150 countries.
  • It has signed grant agreements to invest $22 billion fighting poverty and delivering better health care across the developing world.
  • To protect and build on gains already made it is imperative that the Global Fund is fully funded. This means finding a further US $20 billion to enable the Fund to expand its programmes between 2011 and 2013.
  • Exceptionally low overhead costs mean that almost 97 pence of every pound raised by the Fund goes directly to grants.
  • The Fund has been recognised for its leadership in transparency and accountability – all proposals, applications, grant agreements and progress reports are published on the Global Fund’s website.
  • DFID conducted a review of the Global Fund which found that was “very good value for money” and “critical to the delivery of the health related MDGs.”