Supporting Health Advocacy from the Ground Up

A new amfAR policy brief examines the Global Fund’s efforts to strengthen community-focused programming

The Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a major funder of community-focused programs, providing at least $700 million in grants to programs in 2024 focusing on:

• addressing human rights and gender-related barriers to HIV, TB, malaria, and COVID-19 services;
• providing targeted treatment and prevention programs for key and vulnerable populations, such as men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, and adolescent girls and young women, among others;
• and strengthening activities—such as healthcare advocacy, capacity building, and leadership development—that empower communities impacted by diseases.

So how might a close look at these funding efforts lead to improved data-driven advocacy and, ultimately, better healthcare services?

In collaboration with the group Data, Et cetera, amfAR’s public policy office has published a new issue brief that answers this question by analyzing Global Fund grantmaking at the community level.

By year, country, and recipient type, the authors analyze Global Fund data to tease out funding priorities, changes in budgeting and grant allocations over time for community-focused activities, and how effectively grant money is used. By doing so, the issue brief creates a more detailed map of the Global Fund funding landscape for partners to identify where community-focused programming could be strengthened.

Read the issue brief here.