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Irish singer Bono smiles during the launch of an initiative to help fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 26, 2006.
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Sebastian Derungs/Reuters
2001

As governments around the world realized they needed to work together to effectively combat infectious disease, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was established in Switzerland to properly gather and channel the funding these diseases required. The organization represented one of the first steps in professionalizing the response to HIV/AIDS. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who had called for such a fund, made the first donation. The Group of Eight (G8) countries soon followed suit, as did Bill Gates personally. The Global Fund would soon grow to become the lead funding mechanism for AIDS research and change the face of public health.

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2002