November 21, 2025 (Washington, DC) – Malaria No More CEO Martin Edlund issued the following statement on the United States’ $4.6 billion pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund). The pledge was announced by Jeremy Lewin, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom via video message at the Global Fund’s Eighth Replenishment Summit. 

Malaria No More is pleased to see the United States’ $4.6 billion pledge to the Global Fund announced today at the Eighth Replenishment Summit. This three-year commitment is a smart investment that will save lives and deliver for the American people. 

Over the last two decades, the Global Fund has proven to be one of the most effective global partnerships in history. The impact is undeniable: the Global Fund has saved 70 million lives and helped to eliminate malaria in 21 countries.

Today’s pledge is a welcome signal of U.S. support for global health, and we are pleased to see the U.S. remain the largest contributor to the Global Fund. We also applaud the decision to maintain the 2:1 matching requirement, ensuring U.S. contributions continue to leverage additional support from other donors. Despite the strong show of U.S. support, the Global Fund has ultimately fallen short of the $18 billion needed for a fully resourced replenishment and the $13.8 billion needed to unlock the full U.S. pledge—a gap that will be measured in lives lost and progress stalled unless other countries step up. 

Now is not the time to backtrack. With transformative new technologies coming online, from next-generation vaccines to vector control tools, we are closer than ever to consigning malaria to history.  

Malaria No More stands ready to work with Congress to turn today’s U.S. pledge into reality in the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations process. 

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