FGFJ | Japan Consultation on Joint HSS Funding and Programming Platform with the Global Fund, GAVI, and World Bank
On February 9, 2010, close to 40 participants gathered to discuss the proposed new joint funding and programming platform for heath system strengthening (HSS) to be coordinated by the Global Fund, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and the World Bank.
FGFJ | Global Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo Visits Japan
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) / Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) organized a series of meetings in Tokyo for Mr. Gabriel Jaramillo, general manager of the Global Fund, and Dr. Christoph Benn, the fund’s director of resource mobilization and donor relations.
FGFJ | Diet Members Visit South African Communities Affected by AIDS
From June 29 to July 4, 2006, JCIE/FGFJ Diet Task Force Director Ichiro Aisawa (Member, House of Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party) and Hiroyuki Nagahama (Member, House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan) traveled to South Africa to visit communities ravaged by the AIDS epidemic.
FGFJ | Media Roundtable on the Sidelines of a UN High-Level Meeting on TB
JCIE/FGFJ worked with the United Nations Foundation and Results US to hold a media roundtable titled, “Press briefing on tuberculosis: Why 2018 is a historic year in the fight against this deadly, forgotten disease.” Speakers talked about the current status and efforts to combat tuberculosis, the process leading up to the UNHLM, and take-aways from the hearing the previous day, highlighting the current needs and how much investment it will take to accelerate the fight.
FGFJ | High-Level Panel on “From Okinawa to Tomorrow: Accelerating the Global Fight Against Infectious Diseases”
JCIE and FGFJ joined forces with the Global Fund, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, and UNAIDS to organize a high-level panel on recent progress that has been made in the fight against communicable diseases.
FGFJ | All Nippon Airlines Publicizes the Global Fund on its Flights
The FGFJ arranged for All Nippon Airways (ANA), one of Japan’s two major carriers, to air a video on the Global Fund on all of its domestic flights for three months, from September to December 2006. ANA’s in-flight magazine, Wingspan, which is distributed on all domestic and international flights, simultaneously ran a two-page spread on the Global Fund.
FGFJ | Inaugural Japan Visit of New Global Fund Executive Director Dr. Michel Kazatchkine
JCIE/FGFJ held a seminar in Tokyo on July 26, 2007, on the topic From Heiligendamm to Toyako—The Global Fund on the G8 Agenda, during which Dr. Michel Kazatchkine and Dr. Christoph Benn offered the audience an overview of the Global Fund’s work and its results so far and appealed to Japan to make sure that the momentum that started in Okinawa eight years ago is not lost over the coming years.
FGFJ | Journalist Delegation to Cambodia and Vietnam
From April 21 to 25, 2008, JCIE/FGFJ and the Global Fund led a delegation of five Japanese journalists from major national newspapers to Cambodia and Vietnam. The journalists visited a broad range of sites so that they could better understand the public health problems these countries face and the efforts on the ground to improve the situation.
FGFJ | Diet Delegation to Cambodia and Vietnam
On July 22 to 25, 2008, six members of the JCIE/FGFJ Diet Task Force visited Cambodia and Vietnam to speak with community leaders, aid workers and national policymakers working on AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis and to visit treatment sites and communities dealing with these diseases.
FGFJ | Site Visits to Global Fund–Supported Projects in Ethiopia and Senegal
In order to promote better understanding of how Global Fund support reinforces other health-related activities at the community level, the FGFJ and JCIE worked closely with the Global Fund to organize a study trip for several prominent Japanese global health experts and emerging scholars to Ethiopia and Senegal from April 26 to May 4, 2011.