Armenia to receive $9.6mln from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,  Tuberculosis and Malaria

ArmInfo.  On April 30, at its regular meeting, the Government of Armenia approved the proposal to sign a letter of agreement .

As stated in the explanatory note to the document, the implementation  of grant programs aimed at combating tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS,  financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,  in the Republic of Armenia began in 2003. The programs are aimed at  the prevention, detection, research and treatment of HIV/AIDS and  tuberculosis, and in this sense, providing people living with  HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis with medicines, diagnostic materials  (tests) and medical equipment at the expense of grant funds is of  particular importance.

From 2003 to December 31, 2024, the Republic of Armenia has been  provided with approximately $89.3 million in grants under the Global  Fund grant programs. The current period for 2025-2027. The grant  program was launched on January 1, 2025. A grant of $9.6 million  will be provided to the Republic of Armenia to implement the program.

Since 2015, the above-mentioned grant programs have been implemented  on the basis of the Framework Agreement signed between the Global  Fund and the Republic of Armenia and the attached Grant Rules.

On April 23, 2024, the Ministry of Health received a proposal from  the Global Fund to amend the Framework Agreement. At the same time,  the Ministry of Health was informed that agreements with the proposed  amendments and additions have already been signed with other  countries implementing the Global Fund grant programs, and they are  not specific only to the Republic of Armenia. The indicated changes  are aimed at clarifying the concepts, procedures and provisions  related to the implementation of grant programs and enshrined in the  Framework Agreement.