Programs supported by the Global Fund have reduced the death toll from AIDS, TB and malaria by 50%, saving more than 50 million lives.

Judge as of September 2022. True: Global Fund official reports from that time (for example the 2021 or 2022 Results Report) state that more than 50 million lives were saved and that the combined death rate or death toll from AIDS, TB and malaria fell by about 50% (roughly 45–55%) in the countries where it invests. Mostly true: both figures appear, but the reduction is measured as a death rate rather than a death toll, or covers a slightly different scope or period. Mixed: one of the two figures is supported and the other is substantially off. Mostly false: both are substantially overstated, for example lives saved well under 50 million. False: the official figures contradict both.

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1. E1 Results Report 2022 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · September 2022

   “Health programs supported by the Global Fund partnership had saved 50 million lives as of the end of 2021.”

2. E2 Global Fund raises $14.25 billion to end HIV, TB and malaria | Africanews Africanews · 22 September 2022

   “Since The Global Fund was created in 2002, it has saved 50 million lives and reduced the combined death rate from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria by more than half in the countries where the fund invests.”

3. E3 Global Fund raises $14.25 billion to end HIV, TB and malaria | Africanews Africanews · 22 September 2022

   “The tuberculosis mortality rate fell by 21% and that of malaria by 26%.”

4. E4 Results Report 2022 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · September 2022

   “in this report, data for HIV are up to 2021, but data for TB and malaria are up to 2020, as the 2021 data from WHO was not yet available at the time of publication.”

The Global Fund's 2022 Results Report says the programs it supports had saved 50 million lives by the end of 2021 (E1). A news report from the same week says the combined death rate from HIV, TB and malaria fell by more than half in the countries where the Fund invests (E2). Both figures are supported. However, the reduction is a death rate rather than a death toll. The official figure is also "50 million" rather than "more than 50 million", and the report's data run to 2020 for TB and malaria (E4). Under the criteria, a reduction measured as a death rate makes this mostly true.