Updates
APFSD 2025: Get Back on Track to Achieve SDG Target 3.3 (End AIDS, TB and Malaria) in Asia-Pacific
This hybrid event was co-organised by Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific, Africa Japan Forum and UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia along the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand to provide civil society and community perspectives on the review of Target 3.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals. Click here for the recording and a summary of key highlights and takeaways.
Global Health Funding at a Crossroads
The Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP) and the Seven Alliance jointly convened “Global Health Funding at a Crossroads” to unpack and discuss the current funding crisis in global public health affecting communities and civil society across Asia-Pacific. This call aimed to engage community and civil society stakeholders for collective analysis of the current public health funding crisis and its implications for the Asia-Pacific region; enhance awareness and foster a sense of urgency within communities and civil society to respond proactively to these changes; and to initiate a collaborative process that creates space for information sharing and strategic collaboration to move forward collectively.
GFAN AP Webinar: Mental Health Series #3
The Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP) hosted a webinar on 11 December 2024 co-organised with United for Global Mental Health and the Seven Alliance as the third and final of its three-part series on mental health. Read more for the summary of the webinar focusing on strategies and opportunities for financing of integrated HIV, TB, and mental health services; the importance and urgency of integrating and investing in mental health services in HIV and TB programmes; and hear about synergies with donors, technical agencies, community and civil society for the integration of mental health components into existing HIV and TB funding mechanisms.
World AIDS Day 2024
This statement is jointly released by Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP), communities and civil society across Asia-Pacific to call on leaders to ‘take the rights path’ towards ending AIDS as an epidemic. The promotion and upholding of human rights is not only a necessary obligation by leaders and duty-bearers, it is also an essential approach for ending AIDS as an epidemic, for ensuring sustainable development, and for safeguarding human security.
Unpacking the Global Fund Results Report 2024
The webinar was organised by Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP) on 23rd October 2024 to bring together community and civil society partners from the Asia-Pacific to present on the key findings of the Global Fund Results Report 2024 (Results Report) and its impact on Asia-Pacific leading up to the Global Fund Eighth Replenishment. Click here for the recording and the blog summary to learn more on the key results from 2024 of the Global Fund.
World Mental Health Day 2024
This statement is jointly released by Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP), United for Global Mental Health (UnitedGMH) and the Seven Alliance on World Mental Health Day 2024. As communities and civil society from the Asia-Pacific, we are reminded of the inseparable relationships between mental health, health systems, and access to gainful employment, especially as they have a compounding effect on key and vulnerable communities living with and/or affected by HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. Read more here.
Introducing our new Communications Officer, Ken Khoo
GFAN AP introduces Ken Khoo who joins the Secretariat as the Communications Officer!
Reflection: Communities Leading the Way Towards Mental Health Integration into HIV and TB Care
Reflections on the joint mental health webinars #1 and #2 co-organised by GFAN AP, Seven Alliance, and UnitedGMH, written by Yves Miel Zuniga.
GFAN AP Webinar: Mental Health Series #2
The Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP) hosted a webinar on 4 September 2024 co-organised with United for Global Mental Health and the Seven Alliance as the second of its three-part series on mental health. Read more for the summary of the webinar focusing on the bi-directional relationship between HIV/TB and mental health, the work of country partners implementing relevant mental health interventions and the work of L’Initiative in supporting mental health programming.