International donors set to pledge $14 billion to tackle AIDS: Macron

[October 10, 2019]  LYON, France (Reuters) - International donors are set to pledge $14 billion on Thursday to combating AIDS, said French President Emmanuel Macron.

"In the next three hours, we should get to the $14 billion," he told a gathering in Lyon, adding that France would commit close to $1.5 billion.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten; editing by John Stonestreet)

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