We mobilise private and public initiatives in Europe in support of global health and the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. We work to publicise and encourage recognition of the objectives, actions and achievement of the Global Fund, while helping increase its resources.
Friends of the Global Fund Europe (hereafter Friends Europe) is an organisation working on political advocacy with the aim to promote the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Europe, as well as the achievements of the Global Fund and global health issues.
Through its actions, Friends Europe mobilises political and institutional decision-makers, MPs, civil society organizations as well as the private sector and the media, to increase investments of the international community in global health and in the fight against the 3 diseases, notably through the Global Fund, with the objective to put an end to three of the most devastating pandemics affecting developing countries.
With its headquarters in Paris, Friends Europe operates throughout Europe, mainly in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium and with European institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg.
Friends Europe was created in April 2005, under the high patronage of the President of the French Republic.
RECENT NEWS
Latest publications from Friends Europe and Partners
Open Letter – the EU needs to increase funding for external action
Civil society organizations, Ministers of European Parliament, activists, and thought leaders are calling on European leaders to ensure that the next revision of the bloc's 7-year budget prioritizes funding for climate financing, and funding for [...]
Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen warnen Bundeskanzler Scholz vor Kürzungen in der internationalen Klimafinanzierung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Berlin, 4. Dezember 2023 - Mit einem dringenden Appell, sich gegen die von Finanzminister Lindner geforderten Kürzungen in der internationalen Klimafinanzierung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit auszusprechen, wenden sich sechs Vertreter*innen zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen aus dem Bereich Entwicklungspolitik und [...]
« We, the People », the preparatory conference to the World Health Summit in Berlin
"We, the People", the preparatory conference to the World Health Summit in Berlin The “We, the People” WHS Preparatory Conference, orchestrated by Friends of the Global Fund Europe, served as a foundational event to precede [...]
