South and West Asia Regional Overview: Successes, Challenges and Achievements to Date

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2002 in response to the unacceptably high losses from the pandemics. It is a unique global public/private partnership dedicated to the massive scale-up of financing to prevent and treat these diseases in lower-income countries. This partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities represents a new approach to international health financing. The Global Fund works in close collaboration with other organizations to supplement and support existing efforts dealing with the three diseases.

The Global Fund’s grant portfolio is organized into eight regions, which are managed by eight corresponding clusters in the Global Fund Secretariat. This overview provides a brief insight into the burden of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in each of these countries and offers a brief description of the Global Fund grants active there. The overview features a number of success stories from these states and shares the latest performance indicators for grants attributed to countries in the South and West Asia region.