HARM REDUCTION MESSAGES FOR THE 51st GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING

HARM REDUCTION MESSAGES FOR THE 51st GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING 1 HARM REDUCTION MESSAGES FOR THE 51ST GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING Key takeaways: • Harm reduction is crucial to meeting global health goals and fulfilling the Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028. [...] The 2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy explicitly prioritises the need to focus on community-led responses and ‘intensify and redouble efforts to scale up comprehensive harm reduction for people who inject drugs in all settings.3 The successful implementation of the Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 depends on the ability of the Global Fund to put people, including those who use drugs, communities and hu. [...] The Global Fund Board must bolster the tools and strategies in place to support meaningful engagement of people who use drugs and wider key populations in all aspects of programming, from grant application development through to implementation and monitoring. [...] Key messages The Global Fund Board must ensure that the increased government commitment and funding is allocated to harm reduction and wider key populations prorgammes, which are often not the government priorities; and monitor such government funding regularly. [...] Key messages The Global Fund Board must ensure that the Global Fund model of community leadership and collaboration should directly influence and inspire the Lusaka Agenda’s near-term and long-term priorities.