The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) have signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration, designed to build stronger and more resilient health systems and maximise collaboration and impact in support of country, regional and global responses to major communicable diseases. 

The new five-year framework builds on the previous agreement signed in 2018. It aligns with the 2023-2028 Global Fund Strategy and the WHO General Programme of Work, which put communities at the centre of the health response and also address pandemic preparedness and challenges posed by climate change.

The framework fits with broader collaboration platforms to accelerate support to countries to achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including Universal Health Coverage (UHC). 

Through this new framework, WHO and the Global Fund will be leveraging their comparative strengths across 35 areas for collaboration divided into 4 categories:

1. Health policies and normative guidance
2. Advocacy and health governance
3. Health products and innovations
4. Technical support and capacity building