Title:
Nations and Groups Promise $12 Billion to Fight
AIDS, TB & Malaria
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International donors have promised almost twelve
billion dollars to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria.The Global Fund held a
two-day conference in October in New York City. This
is the largest pledge the eight-year-old
organization has ever received. Stefan Emblad is the
director of resource mobilization. He said the fund
received a twenty percent increase in
contributions.Still, the pledges were a billion
dollars below the lowest estimate of the amount
needed to fight the diseases effectively. In March,
the Global Fund proposed three different plans, from
thirteen to twenty billion dollars. The Global Fund
is a partnership of public and private
organizations. This fund has become the main source
of money for programs to treat and prevent AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria. Donations support programs
in more than one hundred forty countries. Nearly
three million people are receiving treatment for the
AIDS virus through Global Fund programs. One hundred
forty-three million people receive malaria drugs.
And seven million new cases of TB have been
diagnosed and treated since the fund began in two
thousand two. Global Fund officials estimate that
their programs have saved more than five million
lives. Stefan Emblad says these efforts will
continue. He said the organization will not be
cutting funding to any of the existing programs.
Those programs will continue over the next few years
to put more people on treatment and to have more
prevention and care efforts. But they will not be at
the same level as in the last two years.Mr. Emblad
says some of the Millennium Development Goals are
still reachable with this new level of funding. He
said: "We could eliminate malaria as a public health
threat in malaria-endemic countries. We could also
eliminate the transmission of HIV from pregnant
mothers to their unborn babies." He said these goals
could be met by twenty fifteen if countries see them
as most important. More than forty donor countries,
organizations and businesses attended the conference
in New York. The United States promised to give four
billion dollars over the next three years, the
largest donor pledge ever. The United States was the
first donor to the fund and remains the largest.
France is second, followed by Japan, Britain and
Canada among the top five. For VOA Special English
I'm Alex Villarreal.
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