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President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday launched a $ 204 million grant from the Global Fund to eradicate HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by 2030 and to strengthen health systems across the country.
The grant is made available to Ghana by the Global Fund, the largest multilateral investor in health systems grants through its New Funding Model Three (NFM3).
During a brief ceremony in Accra, President Akufo-Addo said the grant would allow the government to build health facilities to deal with other chronic and infectious diseases.
Assuring the government would meet its US $ 45 million matched funding to ensure the grant would be used in Ghana, President Akufo-Addo said his administration would increase domestic funding to ensure universal health coverage. for everyone.
The grant, he said, would, among other things, accelerate Ghana’s progress towards achieving the ambitious UNAIDS 90-90-90 HIV treatment target to help end the AIDS epidemic.
The UNAIDS 90-90-90 treatment target is a broader global health and development effort, which has set a goal of making 90% of people living with HIV aware of their status; ensure that 90% of all people diagnosed with HIV receive sustained antiretroviral therapy and that 90% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy have viral suppression by 2020.
The launch of the new Global Fund grant is in line with the new national health policy orientation, as enshrined in the revised national health policy (PSN, 2020); as well as the 2020-2030 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Roadmap, which seeks to work collaboratively with all stakeholders and partners to ensure that all people in Ghana have timely access to basic health services. high quality, regardless of their ability to pay at the time. useful.
This includes the diagnosis, treatment and management of HIV / AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The President also noted that the new grant would help expand TB case detection and TB treatment.
In addition, a hospital facility for the care of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients would be built in Nsawam, in the eastern region.
The donation would also allow the government to increase coverage of mosquito net distribution, scale up seasonal malaria chemoprevention for children in the five northern regions and Oti and Bono regions with a view to achieving zero infections. malaria.
He urged the Department of Health to ensure the effective use of the grant to achieve its goal and to work with stakeholders to ensure that the processes and controls for the quality of the service to be provided against the three diseases be improved.
He pledged the government’s commitment to provide skilled human resources for disease management.
Since 2002, the Global Fund partnership has recorded cumulative disbursements of some US $ 804 million to Ghana.
The funding agreement has evolved over the years with the inclusion of new elements to enable strengthening of the country’s overall health system.
These efforts have collectively resulted in improved health outcomes.
—GNA
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