In their 2024 results report, the Global Fund partnership claims to have saved 65 million lives from dying of AIDS, TB and malaria alone, in addition to other benefits like morbidity reductions from those diseases, lower infant and maternal mortality and fewer deaths from acute trauma and other conditions.
The 65M lives saved figure caught my eye, since they have “only” disbursed $63 billion so far between 2002 and end of 2023, for an implied cost-effectiveness of ~$1,000 per life saved, about 5x the GiveWell bar. On the one hand, I doubt their assessment is as rigorous as GiveWell’s; on the other hand, even a crude 90% discount (far more than any of the top charities are subject to, AFAICT on a quick skim) still yields $10k per life saved, surprisingly close to the GW bar despite (1) disbursing billions per year (2) across such a wide range of programs.
In their 2024 results report, the Global Fund partnership claims to have saved 65 million lives from dying of AIDS, TB and malaria alone, in addition to other benefits like morbidity reductions from those diseases, lower infant and maternal mortality and fewer deaths from acute trauma and other conditions.
The 65M lives saved figure caught my eye, since they have “only” disbursed $63 billion so far between 2002 and end of 2023, for an implied cost-effectiveness of ~$1,000 per life saved, about 5x the GiveWell bar. On the one hand, I doubt their assessment is as rigorous as GiveWell’s; on the other hand, even a crude 90% discount (far more than any of the top charities are subject to, AFAICT on a quick skim) still yields $10k per life saved, surprisingly close to the GW bar despite (1) disbursing billions per year (2) across such a wide range of programs.