Spain, Luxembourg and Norway announce new pledges to Global Fund at Seville finance-for-development meeting

At a finance-for-development event in Seville, Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares announced that Spain will contribute €145,000,000 to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The announcement came alongside pledges from Luxembourg and Norway and remarks from Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund. Luxembourg’s speaker said Luxembourg would pledge €13.8 million for 2026–28. A Norwegian government representative said Norway would pledge 2,000,000,000 Norwegian kroner (about $200 million) for the next three years; that speaker also said Norway’s combined pledges to the Global Fund and Gavi would total roughly $1 billion (exact time frame for the combined figure was not specified in the remarks).