Peter Sands, Executive Director of the World Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, said that one of the largest global health initiatives will turn more resources to the poorest countries, to help it manage discounts in foreign aid, warning of the expansion of disparity in health services globally.
The Global Fund for Control of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is trying to raise $ 18 billion for its efforts from 2027-2029. But it faces difficult challenges in financing with the decline in many donor governments, led by the United States, from providing aid.
Some countries have already warned that granting them the current period from 2025-2026 may be reduced as a result.
“We direct our resources to the poorest countries … We are particularly concerned about places where there is no real alternative,” Sands said.
He added that some low -income countries have made significant progress in addressing infectious diseases in the past years, as many of them are now trying to mobilize local financing to counter international cuts. But some of them did not have this option.
He continued, “There are some regions in the world that suffer from a fierce mixture of poverty, conflict, climate change and disease, and if he left those areas of the world to rely on their own capabilities, an ethical idea is hateful.”
This came during Sands’s speech to correspondents in London before the issuance of the report of the World Fund for the year 2025 today, Wednesday.