Second Meeting of the Third Voluntary Replenishment (2011-2013)
New York, United States of America, 4-5 October 2010
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, will chair the Global Fund’s Third Voluntary Replenishment and pledging conference in New York on 4-5 October. The conference follows a first preparatory meeting for the Replenishment held in the The Hague in March, and the Global Fund event “Champions of Global Health” held during the MDG Summit in New York in September. The meeting will provide an opportunity for high-level representatives from donor governments and private sector organizations to reaffirm their commitment to the work of the Global Fund by announcing funding pledges for 2011 to 2013.
On 4 October participants will discuss follow up work undertaken in response to a range of issues raised by participants in The Hague, discuss the current reform program being implemented by the Global Fund Secretariat, and consider future resource projections for the next three years. On the evening of 4 October the Secretary General will open the Global Fund sponsored photographic exhibition, Access To Life during the welcome reception for conference participants. The reception will also feature a presentation on the Global Fund’s ground-breaking web-based campaign, Born HIV Free launched by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on 19 May. On 5 October the Secretary General will chair the conference’s pledging session during which donors to the Global Fund will announce their contributions to the Global Fund for the next three years.
The Global Fund is the largest multilateral funder of public health programs in developing countries and the Replenishment outcomes will have direct bearing on many countries’ ability to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals by 2015. With sufficient funding for the Replenishment the Global Fund could be in a position to: eradicate malaria as a public health concern in most malaria endemic countries; virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to child; contain the threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis; prevent millions of avoidable deaths from AIDS; and contribute to significant reductions in maternal and child mortality.
Further details on the agenda and background documentation can be found here