At a January 26 press conference, former Prime Minister Kan discussed the recent Japanese Cabinet decision to contribute approximately US$340 million to the Global Fund for 2012.
Sony Corporation has joined the growing ranks of Japanese companies to enter into partnership with the Global Fund in an effort to stem the spread and impact of communicable diseases.
James Chau met with key AIDS activists at akta Community Center
The 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.
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.
At the G20 Business Summit held in Seoul this week, Takeda Pharmaceutical President and CEO Yasuchika Hasegawa and Anglo American Chief Executive Cynthia Carroll co-convened a working group meeting on access to healthcare.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced Japan’s new financial commitment to the Global Fund, amounting to US$800 million.
The this talk sessions was organized in collaboration with volunteer and student NGOS in support of Stand Up Take Action Japan at the Access to Life photo exhibition in Tokyo.
Over 60 participants gathered on September 12, 2010, to hear a special guest talk by Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori.
Carol Nyirenda, national coordinator of Zambia’s Community Initiative for Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (CITAM+), spoke at the first of a series of gallery talk sessions organized in parallel with the photo exhibition Access to Life.
In 2007, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria initiated a joint project with Magnum Photos to document the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the lives of people living with AIDS around the world.
On September 3, 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan opened a special launch event for the Tokyo exhibition of Access to Life, a joint photographic project by Magnum Photos and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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