[Correspondence] Closing the adolescent health financing gap: the Global Financing Facility

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Source: The Lancet

Original: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00320-X/fullt...

Published: 2026-03-21

The Global Financing Facility (GFF) was established in 2015 to mobilize finance to support the health of women, children and adolescents.[3] Between 2015 and 2022, the GFF and its partners mobilized $2.5 billion in grants and leveraged more than $11 billion in World Bank financing to support reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition.[3] All GFF partner countries have reduced maternal and child mortality rates and teenage births, expanded access to modern family planning methods, and three-quarters of countries have reduced rates of child stunting.[3] Despite these advances, the analysis found that adolescent health was covered inconsistently in GFF documents, with content stronger in investment cases than in project approval documents.[4] Countries with high rates of births before age 18 have paid more attention to adolescent health, but significant gaps remain in some fragile states and other areas.[4]