ALL ABOUT GAFFI

Fungal diseases are neglected worldwide by public health authorities.

• Identifying and publicising gaps in diagnostics and treatments for fungal diseases.
• Consulting on how services could be improved through facilitating training, encouraging companies to expand their markets and recommending improvements in infrastructure.
• Estimating the burden of serious fungal diseases, country by country. Over 65 countries with a population >1 million have been addressed, and many are published (view).
• Develop, implement and evaluate country-wide diagnostic programs. Guatemala (fungal infections in AIDS) is the first (view).
• Influence national and international agencies to ‘adopt’ fungal diseases alongside existing programs including TB, microbiology, AMR, NTDs and incorporation of key generic antifungals onto the WHO Essential Medicines List.
• Focussed diagnostic improvements for GAFFI’s priority diseases.