Countries Covered: European Union: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, United-Kingdom, Cyprus, Hungary, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lettonia, Lituania, Slovakia, Malta, Romania, Bulgaria.
71bis, rue du Cardinal Lemoine
75005 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0) 1 44 07 08 66
Fax: +33 (0) 1 44 07 08 66 or +33 (0) 1 47 53 00 79
Sylviechantereau@afmeurope.org
www.afmeurope.org
Managing Director: Sylvie Chantereau
The role of Amis du Fonds mondial (Friends Europe) is to contribute to the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and to promote the Global Fund in Europe by informing audiences of the Global Fund’s missions, activities, needs, results and governance. It also pursues advocacy among parliamentarians, public and private decision-makers, the media and civil society to seek partnerships and resource mobilization (in particular through budget and innovative financing mechanisms) on behalf of the Global Fund. Friends Europe is registered under the 1901 law governing non-profit organizations.
Friends Europe focuses on a number of different areas: Advocacy, Education, Resource mobilization, Policy making and Communication/Events
Countries Covered: Japan (Also promotes regional cooperation in East Asia and cooperation between Japan and Africa).
c/o Japan Center for International Exchange
Minami Azabu 4-9-17,
Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106-0047
JAPAN
Tel: +81-(0)3-3446-7781
Fax: +81-(0)3-3443-7580
fgfj@jcie.or.jp
www.jcie.or.jp/fgfj/
Chairman: Yoshiro Mori
Director: Tadashi Yamamoto
Friends of the Global Fund Japan (Friends Japan) is a private support group that promotes a greater understanding of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, encourages Japan to expand its role in the battle against communicable diseases and builds cooperation between Japan and other East Asian countries in this shared struggle. Friends Japan draws upon participation of diverse sectors of Japanese society, including the fields of government and politics, business, academia, labor, and the nonprofit sphere.
Friends Japan is administered by Japan Center for International Exchange which is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening Japan’s role in international networks of dialogue and cooperation.
In recent years, Friends Japan has been working on integrating Japan’s response to communicable diseases with efforts to strengthen health systems more broadly. They will continue to work closely with the Working Group on Challenges in Global Health and Japan’s Contributions, also organized by JCIE, to make sure that Japan’s efforts in both areas are integrated for mutual benefit rather than competing for resources and attention.
The three areas of focus of Friends Japan are as follows: Advocacy, Education, and Resource mobilization.
Countries Covered: Latin America and the Caribbean
Avda. Las Heras 2207
4to piso
(1414) Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA
Tel: +5411-48072772
Fax:+5411-48072772
jhourcade@aidsalliance.org
www.amigosdelfondomundial.org
Head: Javier L. Hourcade Bellocq
Friends of the Global Fund Latin America & the Caribbean (Friends LAC) is a regional initiative, which works to mobilize strategic political and financial support for the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria. Friends LAC will contribute to increasing the understanding of and support for the Global Fund through awareness-raising and educational campaigns, advocacy activities at the country and regional levels and documenting Global Fund stories and lessons learnt.
This initiative aims to promote the meaningful participation of governments, the private sector, academia and civil society in all of the Global Fund’s structures whether at the national, regional or international levels.
Friends LAC will also contribute to channeling the voices and needs of those sectors to the high-level deliberations of the Global Fund and other global health initiatives in order to positively influence policy and strategic decision relating to the Global Fund. In particular, the organization will focus its effort on profiling the LAC region within the international donor community, as the region has lower levels of international investment in health.
Their role will also be to champion the Global Fund inside and outside the region, ensuring the engagement of all sectors so as to better contribute to Global Fund-supported programs and foster partnerships that will enable effective program implementation and long-term sustainability.
Friends LAC was launched in August 2008 and is currently in the process of constituting its management structure and advisory board.
Countries Covered: Middle East and North Africa region
Tel: +962 79 5505049
rababneh@gmail.com
MENA Friends, founded in January 2009, has as their mission to mobilize MENA regional institutions, public opinion and private companies in supporting the Global Fund. The MENA Friends organization brings together MENA government and institutional representatives, civil society and private sector partners willing to contribute to the fight against the three diseases.
The MENA region is considered a high-prevalence region for tuberculosis and malaria. Prevalence for HIV/AIDS is still low, but there are a number of factors which could favor the rapid spread of the diseases, such as unprotected sexual behaviors, increasing use of injecting drugs, etc. Therefore one of the challenges facing MENA Friends is to assist in breaking the silence surrounding these diseases and in encouraging positive dialogue. Stigma and discrimination are serious issues, as is a lack of accurate data on the state of the three pandemics.
The three areas of focus for FRIENDS MENA include: Advocacy, Education, and Resource mobilization.
Countries Covered: Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated Sates of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Timor Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu and an association with the French territories in the Pacific.
The Lowy Institute for international Policy
31 Bligh Street
Sydney NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 8238 9000
Fax: +61 2 8238 9005
bbowtell@lowyinstitute.org
www.pacificfriendsglobalfund.org
Executive Director: Bill Bowtell
Pacific Friends of the Global Fund (Pacific Friends), established in February 2009, raises awareness of the regional challenges posed by the three diseases and the role of the Global Fund. It aims to build regional political and financial support for the Global Fund. Pacific Friends is hosted under the auspices of Lowy Institute for International Policy.
In establishing its operational practices Pacific Friends has developed a system for regular contact between its members, formed a Coordinating Committee to oversee its administration and strategic direction, outlined its short-term research and advocacy agenda, strengthened its relations with Australian and New Zealand governments, and raised its public profile through domestic and international engagements.
The challenges to the success of the Pacific Friends project are mainly anticipated to lie in the ability of Pacific Friends to persuade the Australian and New Zealand governments and private sectors to increase their levels of support for the Global Fund, to maintain focus on achievable goals and outcomes, and to engage with leading regional policy-makers and opinion formers. The geographical size, cultural complexity and widely disparate levels of development in the region pose substantial challenges to the mission of Pacific Friends.
Countries Covered: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Confederation of Indian Industry
249 F, Udyog Vihar,
Phase IV, Sector 18,
Gurgaon – 122 015
Haryana,
INDIA
Tel: +91 – 124 – 4014540
Fax: +91 – 124 - 4014083
s.sen@cii.in
Chief Executive Officer: Mr Sushanta Sen
Broadly speaking, the role of Friends of South and West Asia (Friends Asia) is to bring about greater awareness of the need for good health with special reference to the three communicable diseases. The main focus would be on prevention. The organization also seeks to publicize the activities of the Global Fund and also the socioeconomic impact of Global Fund money on these three diseases in the different countries of the region.
In addition, Friends Asia will also take on a resource mobilization role by not only requesting governments in the region to contribute (or, in some cases, increase their current contribution) to the Global Fund, but also try and identify ways and means of innovative financing.
Friends Asia will engage in public policy dialogue to utilize political support for increased resources for the health sector. It will also strengthen communication with the private sector for more active involvement in Global Fund-supported programs as co-investment partners, implementing projects, provision of services, etc.
Countries Covered: United States
1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW
Suite 912
Washington, D.C. 20036
UNITED STATES
Tel: +1 202 789 0801
Fax: +1 202 789 0802
info@TheGlobalFight.org www.TheGlobalFight.org
President: Natasha Bilimoria
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Friends U.S.) works to educate, engage and mobilize U.S. decision-makers to support the Global Fund and the fight to end the worldwide burden of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Friends U.S. is an independent non-profit organization whose activities primarily focus on policy issues and communications. The policy team works to secure robust funding levels from the U.S. (the single largest donor to the Global Fund) by advocating on behalf of the Global Fund within the Congress and the administration. A primary method for achieving this goal is through education; Friends U.S. serves as a primary resource on the Global Fund to policy-makers and the U.S.-based global health community.
The communications work of Friends U.S. centers around all of the internal and external communications related to the organization. Its objective is two-fold: to support Friends’ policy work and to support the Global Fund in the U.S.
In 2009 and 2010, Friends will be working with Congress and the administration to educate them on the needs and successes of the Global Fund, as well as the need to proactively support robust funding for the Global Fund for fiscal years 2010 and 2011.