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HEALTH

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 1. Home
 2. Australia’s development program
 3. Development topics
 4. Development issues
 5. Education and health
 6. Health
 7. Global health initiatives

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DEVELOPMENT TOPICS

 * Development sectors
 * Development issues
   * 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development
     Goals
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   * Disability-inclusive development
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   * Blended Finance
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GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES

DFAT's support for global health initiatives complements our country and
regional health programs - improving development cooperation on priority health
issues and increasing the effectiveness of our health development program.
Information on some of these key activities can be found below.


KEY ACTIVITIES

 * World Health Organization (WHO)
 * United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
 * The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
 * Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
 * Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)
 * International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
 * Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
 * Gavi the Vaccine Alliance
 * The Pandemic Fund


WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)

$75 million (2022-27 core contribution)

The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health
within the United Nations (UN) system. It delivers technical expertise to
countries in our region, assisting governments to build resilient country-level
health systems and services that are responsive to people's health needs. The
WHO plays a lead role in supporting countries and regions to prepare for,
identify and respond to health threats, including emerging diseases. It also
leads global responses to global and regional health threats, such as the
COVID-19 pandemic and the current mpox outbreak, and is the lead for the UN
Inter-Agency Standing Committee's Global Health Cluster in humanitarian
emergencies.

WHO is a valued partner of Australia, and we work closely to strengthen WHO
operations and health outcomes in our region. Australia (DFAT) provides the WHO
with annual core voluntary contributions in a flexible and predictable manner to
support delivery of its Fourteenth General Programme of Work 2025-28 and to
advance Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Ensuring healthy lives and promoting
well-being for all at all ages, by:

 * achieving universal health coverage
 * addressing health emergencies
 * promoting healthier populations.

This is complemented by regional and bilateral funding, as well as Australia’s
assessed contributions, funded by the Australian Department of Health and Aged
Care.

Australia is working closely with the WHO and partners to reform global health
systems to enhance our collective capabilities to prevent, prepare for and
respond to future pandemics and health emergencies.


RELATED LINK

World Health Organization


UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND (UNFPA)

$9.5 million annual core contribution (2024-2025)

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is a key organisation in supporting
global achievement of health, education and gender equality objectives under the
Sustainable Development Goals. It is the lead organisation within the UN system
responsible for ensuring progress towards universal realisation of sexual and
reproductive health and rights, including improving maternal health, increasing
access to family planning services, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, ending
gender-based violence (GBV) as well as addressing issues such as forced and
early childhood marriage. UNFPA also provides technical guidance, training and
support to its partners in the field to collect, analyse and apply population
data for improved, evidence-based public policy. Australia provides UNFPA with
annual core contributions in a flexible and predictable manner to support the
implementation of UNFPA's Strategic Plan.


RELATED LINK

United Nations Population Fund


THE JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

$25 million (2023-27)

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the primary global
multilateral agency responding to HIV/AIDS. Its mandate is to provide
international coordination, leadership, data, strategic guidance and advocacy
to:

 * mobilise global resources for the HIV/AIDS response
 * support countries to implement effective national HIV responses, amend
   discriminatory laws and policies, increase domestic spending on HIV, and
   successfully apply for and implement external HIV grants.

Australia provides UNAIDS with annual core funding of AUD5 million under the
DFAT-UNAIDS Strategic Partnership Framework 2022-27 to support the contribution
of UNAIDS to the implementation of the Global AIDS Strategy 2021-26, with a
focus on the Indo-Pacific region.

Australia is also providing non-core funding to UNAIDS under Australia’s ‘set
aside’ to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to catalyse
Global Fund HIV investments in the Indo-Pacific.

UNAIDS is advancing a multisectoral and inclusive global response to end AIDS by
2030 worldwide, by uniting the efforts of 11 United Nations organisations
(UNHCR, UNICEF, WPF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, World Bank)
and enabling an NGO delegation to sit on its governing body alongside Australia
and other member states, to give voice to those living with and impacted by HIV.


RELATED LINK

UNAIDS


COALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONS (CEPI)

$100 million (2023-2027)

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) supports global research
and development of vaccines against diseases of epidemic and pandemic
potential. 

CEPI was launched at Davos in 2017 as the result of a consensus that a
coordinated, international, and intergovernmental plan was needed to develop and
deploy new vaccines to prevent future epidemics like the world had just
witnessed with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014-2016). Vaccines are
recognised as one of our most powerful tools in preventing and halting epidemics
and new vaccines are needed against a range of potential viral threats.


RELATED LINK

CEPI


GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION INITIATIVE (GPEI)

$43.55 million (2022-26)

The world has made great gains in polio eradication. Since GPEI's inception in
1988, the incidence of wild poliovirus has decreased by more than 99 per cent
and now remains endemic in only two countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan). There
has though been an increase in reported vaccine derived polio (cVDPV) cases –
and this has become a significant global challenge over the past five years.
While a polio-free world is in sight, ongoing support is needed to achieve the
end game objectives in the Global Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026. In 2022
Australia committed an additional $43.55 million to help procure vaccines,
strengthen surveillance, and transition polio activities into routine
immunisation systems.


RELATED LINK

Global Polio Eradication Initiative


INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION (IPPF)

$6.0 million global core contribution (2024-25)

IPPF is the largest non-government provider of sexual and reproductive health
(SRH) services worldwide. It is also a leading global advocate for sexual and
reproductive health rights. In 2023 IPPF delivered 222.4 million sexual and
reproductive health services, reaching 71.2 million clients, and contributed to
115 policy and legal changes in support of sexual and reproductive health and
rights.

Australia has funded IPPF since 1974 and provided core contributions since 1992
to support IPPF deliver against its Strategic Plan. In addition to core funding,
Australia provides an annual allocation to IPPF to advance SRHR in the Pacific.


RELATED LINK

International Planned Parenthood Federation


GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA

$266 million (2023-2025)

Australia contributes to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, an international financing partnership that supports large-scale
prevention, treatment and care programs and strengthens health systems in
developing countries. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in our region
affects Australia's national interest both directly, through the immediate
health risks to our citizens, and indirectly, through the loss of economic
opportunities.

Australia pledged AUD266 million to the Global Fund for the 2023-25 period, up
from AUD242 million for 2020-22. Ten per cent of Australia’s pledge (AUD26.6
million) has been ‘set aside’ to support investments in the Indo-Pacific between
2023-25.

Since 2002, the Global Fund has worked in partnership with national governments,
civil society, the private sector and people affected by HIV, TB and malaria to
achieve:

 * 65 million lives saved
 * USD10.6 billion in programs to prevent TB, representing 76 per cent of all
   international financing for TB programs
 * USD17.5 billion for the fight against malaria, representing 62 per cent of
   all international financing for malaria programs
 * USD30 billion for HIV programs, representing 28 per cent of all international
   financing for HIV programs.

Activities include, but are not limited to, the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of HIV, TB and malaria, supporting human rights responses, and
strengthening health systems such as laboratories, supply chains, surveillance
infrastructure and pandemic preparedness capacities.

The Global Fund’s 2023-28 strategy aims to end AIDS, TB and malaria, and
includes an increased focus on pandemic preparedness, resilient and sustainable
systems for health, gender equality and human rights.


RELATED LINK

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria


GAVI THE VACCINE ALLIANCE

$300 million (2021-2025)

DFAT has a long-standing partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and
has committed AUD300 million from 2021-2025 to enhance routine immunisation, and
AUD215 million to the COVAX Advance Market Coordination (AMC) mechanism to
support equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Gavi helps lower-income countries build up their routine immunisation and
introduce new vaccines. Through partnerships with manufacturers, Gavi shapes
global vaccine markets and pools vaccine procurement to secure low vaccine
prices for eligible countries. It donates vaccines for countries’ routine
immunisation programs with minimal co-financing from recipient governments,
funds vaccination campaigns and supports their outbreak responses. It also
provides technical assistance and grants to strengthen country health systems to
enhance immunisation outcomes. Building on the COVAX experience, Gavi is now
providing catalytic support to Middle Income Countries to introduce a set of new
vaccines and mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic on their routine
immunisation programs.  With the closure of COVAX on 31 December 2023, Gavi has
also taken on responsibility for providing COVID-19 vaccines until the end of
its 2021-2025 strategic period.

Gavi also uses innovative approaches to generating funding for development,
including the International Finance Facility for Immunisation mechanism (IFFIm),
which generates funds for Gavi programs through issuing bonds on capital
markets. Over 2010-2030 Australia is providing $287.5 million to IFFM.

Gavi has supported 16 countries in the region with more than USD5.38 billion in
vaccine, health system, and immunisation systems support since 2000. Gavi's
support has led to the immunisation of more than 822 million children worldwide,
including over 240 million the Indo-Pacific, and has helped avert 3.48 million
deaths in our region.  This includes more than 37,000 cervical cancer deaths
averted as a result of the Gavi-supported roll-out of the HPV vaccine.


RELATED LINKS

 * Gavi the Vaccine Alliance
 * COVAX Facility


THE PANDEMIC FUND

$50 million (2022-2026)

The Pandemic Fund provides additional, long-term financing to strengthen
national, regional and global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
(PPR) capabilities.

Launched in 2022, the Pandemic Fund is the culmination of global efforts to
ensure the world learns lessons from COVID-19. Key independent reviews of the
global COVID-19 response, including the WHO-commissioned Independent Panel for
Pandemic Preparedness and Response and the G20 High-Level Independent Panel on
Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, identified
significant financing shortfalls for pandemics and recommended establishing a
new international financing facility to mobilise long-term, predictable and
sustainable funding. Hosted by the World Bank and drawing on the technical
expertise of the WHO, the Pandemic Fund brings together key financial and health
institutions to address the risks of future pandemics to health and the global
economy.


RELATED LINK

The Pandemic Fund

 

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