A public seminar will be held featuring Dr. Mark Dybul (Executive Director, Global Fund) on the Global Fund’s strategy to achieve the goal of ending the three epidemics by 2030 and Japan’s role in that process.
Four members of the Friends of the Global Fund Japan (FGFJ) Diet Task Force visited Indonesia and Timor-Leste from September 5–11. The trip provided an opportunity for the participants to see first-hand how Japan’s support for the Global Fund is making an impact in the field and to grasp the challenges that government officials and communities continue to face.
The Global Fund achieved its replenishment goal at the 5th Replenishment Meeting, held in Montreal, Canada, on September 17. The total pledged for the coming three years is US$12.9 billion, including US$800 million from Japan.
On Friday, May 20, 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a new pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the amount of US$800 million.
In an op-ed published in the Nikkei Shimbun on May 15, UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis Eric Goosby stresses the need for greater efforts to
Friends of the Global Fund Japan (FGFJ) welcomes the announcement by Canada to host the Fifth Replenishment Conference* of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Aida Kurtovic, vice chair of the Global Fund, visited Japan on February 3–6. This was her first visit to Japan since her appointment as vice
JCIE/USA Executive Director James Gannon interviews Dr. Mark Dybul on the sidelines of a December 16, 2015 JCIE conference on “Universal Health Coverage in the New Development Era.”
The Preparatory Meeting of the Global Fund’s 5th Replenishment was held on December 17 in Tokyo, and was hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign
Diet Task Force breakfast meeting with Bill Gates and Mark Dybul.
Dr. Osamu Kunii speaks at a joint FGFJ Diet Task Force and Advisory Board Meeting during his visit to Japan in October 2015.
The government of Japan and the Global Fund co-organized a UNGA side event on “The Path Towards Universal Health Coverage: the promotion of equitable global health and human security in the post-2015 development era” along with the governments of France, Liberia, Senegal, Thailand, the WHO, and the World Bank.
