The FGFJ and JCIE worked closely with the Global Fund to organize a study trip for several prominent Japanese global health experts and emerging scholars to Ethiopia and Senegal from April 26 to May 4, 2011.
At the G20 Business Summit held in Seoul this week, Takeda Pharmaceutical President and CEO Yasuchika Hasegawa and Anglo American Chief Executive Cynthia Carroll co-convened a working group meeting on access to healthcare.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced Japan’s new financial commitment to the Global Fund, amounting to US$800 million.
The this talk sessions was organized in collaboration with volunteer and student NGOS in support of Stand Up Take Action Japan at the Access to Life photo exhibition in Tokyo.
Over 60 participants gathered on September 12, 2010, to hear a special guest talk by Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori.
Carol Nyirenda, national coordinator of Zambia’s Community Initiative for Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (CITAM+), spoke at the first of a series of gallery talk sessions organized in parallel with the photo exhibition Access to Life.
In 2007, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria initiated a joint project with Magnum Photos to document the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the lives of people living with AIDS around the world.
On September 3, 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan opened a special launch event for the Tokyo exhibition of Access to Life, a joint photographic project by Magnum Photos and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
On March 18, 2010, Takeda Pharmaceutical and the Global Fund announced an exciting new partnership in which Takeda will contribute JPY1 billion (approximately US$10 million) over ten years for the Global Fund’s programs.
On February 26, 2010, the FGFJ organized a public seminar featuring Dr. Michel Kazatchkine.
On February 9, 2010, close to 40 participants gathered to discuss the proposed new joint funding and programming platform for heath system strengthening (HSS) to be coordinated by the Global Fund, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and the World Bank.
The FGFJ held a seminar in Tokyo on June 23, 2009, to increase understanding of the activities and role of the Global Fund, and to share information with Japanese professionals about career possibilities within the Global Fund.
