CAPE VERDE – The Global Fund has allocated US$4.7 million to finance programs that fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Cape Verde for the period 2023 to 2025.
US$2.99 million has been allocated to fight HIV/AIDS, US$1.21 million for malaria and US$0.5 for tuberculosis, a figure similar to that assigned from 2020 to 2022.
Created in 2002, the Global Fund is an international funding institution that brings together governments, civil society institutions, the private sector and communities, dedicated to attracting and distributing resources to prevent and treat, essentially, those three diseases.
Global Fund stated that the strong and stable political environment of Cape Verde and the robust health system of the archipelago have resulted in significant gains in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.
The country has not registered cases of local transmission of malaria for more than three years.
“The country has been a leader in efforts to eliminate vertical transmission of HIV, when the virus passes from mother to child during pregnancy, and is one of the few countries in West and Central Africa that is close to achieving this goal,” Global Fund said.
“Cape Verde has also gone several consecutive years without local transmission of malaria, making it eligible to apply for World Health Organization certification for malaria elimination.”
The institution, one of Cape Verde’s main international donors, says the funding made available aims to support the country’s goal of eliminating vertical transmission of HIV and syphilis this year, reduce deaths from tuberculosis by 50% compared to 2015, and treat 100% of people with drug-resistant tuberculosis, in addition to “maintaining Cabo Verde’s status of zero autochthonous cases of malaria.
In January, Uganda set to make a major shift in the battle against malaria from its contribution to the Global Fund, with the focus turning from treatment to prevention, especially at the household level.
The Global Fund released US$587 million to the government of Uganda for battling malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. HIV/AIDS received US$288 million, TB US$31 million and malaria US$267 million.
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