The International Organisation for Migration (IOM)’s Middle East Response (MER) as Principal Recipient (PR) organised a high-level regional strategic resource mobilisation meeting in Amman on February 26 and 27.

The meeting brought together representatives from the Global Fund (GF) and deputy ministers of health from different public health ministries from Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Palestinian Territories as well as technical partners, such as WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF and members of Local Fund Agent, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (TPH), according to an IOM statement.

The meeting offered a platform for the health ministry leadership from the six countries supported by IOM through the GF grant to engage in discussions on how to effectively utilise resources available to countries through the Middle East Response to achieve national goals and the thematic elimination goal or agenda in terms of tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malaria in the Middle East region.