This brief offers practical recommendations to the Global Fund on how to integrate services responsibly, with communities at the centre and rights protected.
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has declared that in the impending Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) it will accelerate the integration of HIV, TB and malaria (HTM) efforts into primary health care (PHC) and broader health systems, the stated goals being to sustain HTM services, increase efficiencies and build resilient health systems.
This document sets out recommendations to the Global Fund Board and Secretariat that are aimed at minimising the risks of integration being done badly and maximising the potential for benefit. The focus is on integration at the level of services. While the recommendations are directed to protecting and promoting the health, well-being and dignity of people who use drugs, the substance of many of the recommendations is broadly applicable to the benefit of all key populations across the three diseases.