FGFJ | Seminar on “Okinawa, Toyako, and Beyond: Progress on Health and Development”
On February 26, 2010, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) / Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) organized a public seminar featuring Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund. Dr. Kazatchkine remarked on the close relationship between the Global Fund and Japan, and expressed appreciation for the strong support given by Japan to the creation and subsequent activities of the Global Fund.
FGFJ | Roundtable with Bill Gates
On April 21, 2006, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joined a small group of JCIE/FGFJ board members representing various sectors of Japanese society for a special briefing session on Japan’s response to the spread of the major communicable diseases.
FGFJ | Roundtable on Global Health
JCIE / FGFJ convened a roundtable in Tokyo on August 6, 2007, with Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & Melinda Gate’s Foundation’s Global Health Program, titled Addressing Challenges in Global Health: How the Public and Private Sectors Can Work Together. Approximately 50 representatives from civil society, businesses, academia, the government, and the media attended the event.
FGFJ | Japan Visit by the Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) / FGFJ organized a series of events with Prof. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund, while he was in Japan to give a presentation at the MDGs Follow-up Meeting held in Tokyo on June 2 and 3, 2011.
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.