About FGFJ


2010

February 26, 2010

FGFJ Diet Task Force Meeting

February 26, 2010

Seminar on "Okinawa, Toyako, and Beyond: Progress on Health and Development"

February 26, 2010

FGFJ Board meeting with Global Fund Director Michel Kazatchkine

February 9, 2010

Japan Consultation on Joint HSS Funding and Programming Platform with the Global Fund, GAVI, and World Bank


2009

November 2009

Publication of report on "The Role and Challenges of Japanese NGOs in the Global Health Policymaking Process"

October 22, 2009

Roundtable on the "Role of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Multisectoral Partnership"

October 5-6, 2009

Diet Task Force meeting, corporate partnership lecture, and roundtable with Christoph Benn, Global Fund director of external relations

July 14 , 2009

Roundtable with Professor Miriam K. Were, Hideyo Noguchi Award Laureate

June 23, 2009

Tokyo seminar on careers in the Global Fund

March 21, 2009

Japan Announces $194 Million Contribution to the Global Fund

January 19, 2009

FGFJ Diet Task Force SE Asia mission seminar and reception


2008

July 22-26, 2008

Diet delegation to Cambodia and Vietnam

June 2008

Publication of Building Resilience: Human Security Approaches to AIDS in Africa and Asia

May 25-27, 2008

Outreach Seminars in Hokkaido, Sendai, Kyoto, Okayama, and Nagasaki

May 24, 2008

Global Seminar: "Innovative Global Networks for Healthy Society in Africa and Beyond"

May 23-28, 2008

Symposium: "From Okinawa to Toyako: Dealing with Communicable Diseases as Global Human Security Threats"

May 23, 2008

Prime Minister Fukuda pledges $560 million to Global Fund at FGFJ symposium

May 21-25, 2008

Journalist delegation to Cambodia and Vietnam

February 29, 2008

Japanese government commits US$184 million to the Global Fund for 2008

February 7, 2008

JCIE global health working group meets with Global Fund executives to discuss health system strengthening



2007

November 4, 2007

Friends of the Global Fund Africa Founder and CEO Dr. Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba visit to Japan

August 6, 2007

Roundtable on Global Health

July 26, 2007

Inaugural Japan visit of new Global Fund Executive Director Dr. Michel Kazatchkine

June 16, 2007

Documentary on George Soros's philanthropy and the fight against AIDS premieres on NHK's Mirai no Teigen (Interview by FGFJ Director Tadashi Yamamoto)

June 5, 2007

Conference Report Released: East Asian Regional Response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

March 2, 2007

Japan raises Global Fund contribution to US$186 million

February 5, 2007

International Symposium on Corporate Responses to Communicable Diseases



2006

December 1, 2006

U2's Bono speaks with Japanese leaders on AIDS and Africa

October 16, 2006

Diet Task Force meeting with George Soros, founder, Open Society Institute

September 6, 2006

All Nippon Airlines publicizes the Global Fund on its flights

July 10, 2006

Beijing Conference: East Asian Regional Cooperation in the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

July 1, 2006

Chinese version published: Fighting A Rising Tide: The Response to AIDS in East Asia [PDF 2.5MB]

June 29, 2006

Diet members visit South African communities affected by AIDS

May 30, 2006

Diet Task Force meeting with Surin Pitsuwan, MP & former Thai foreign minister

May 26, 2006

M·A·C AIDS Fund contributes to the FGFJ

May 1, 2006

Publication of Fighting A Rising Tide: The Response to AIDS in East Asia

April 21, 2006

Roundtable with Bill Gates, co-chair, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

February 28, 2006

Conference Report Released: East Asian Regional Response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria [PDF 1.1MB; English and Japanese]



2005

November 8, 2005

Japanese nonprofits donate "whiteband" campaign proceeds to the Global Fund

October 20, 2005

Publication of Communicable Diseases: An Action Agenda for Corporate Social Responsibility [PDF; Japanese only]

June 30, 2005

Prime Minister Koizumi announces US$500 million for the Global Fund at FGFJ conference

June 29, 2005

Workshop: Comparative Research on Responses to the Spread of Communicable Diseases in East Asia

June 28, 2005

Symposium: The Role of Business in the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Learning from Successful Cases in Meeting Global Challenges

April 1, 2005

Seminar: Cross-Sectoral Partnership in Responding to Global Challenges—The Roles of Civil Society and Corporations in Enhancing the Work of the Global Fund



2004

December 8-10, 2004

Visit to Japan of Prof. Richard Feachem, Executive Director, Global Fund

March 22, 2004

Friends of the Global Fund, Japan launched in Tokyo at international conference—"Human Security Challenges of AIDS and Communicable Disease in Asia—Exploring Effective Regional and Global Responses"