Global
fund raises $12.9 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria
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[September 19, 2016]
By Allison Lampert
MONTREAL (Reuters) - A global fund has
raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a
campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday.
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The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector
partners to raise a total of $13 billion at a donor conference in
Montreal to support its activities over the next three years,
starting in 2017.
"We can declare success for we have saved the lives of 8 million
people in the coming years," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
told reporters after attending the conference, which drew several
heads of state, singer Bono and Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> co-founder
and philanthropist Bill Gates.
The attention generated by the conference "has ensured that the
donations are going to continue to flow in" during the coming weeks
and months, Trudeau said.
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The Global Fund, the world's largest aimed at fighting the three
diseases, is credited with saving 20 million lives since it was
established in 2002.
"We have the knowledge and tools to end HIV, TB and malaria as
epidemics by 2030, but we need to invest smartly and with focus to
make it happen," Mark Dybul, the fund's executive director, said in
a statement.
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The United States, the fund's largest donor, in August pledged up to
$4.3 billion through 2019. The amount is subject to congressional
approval.
The three diseases targeted by the fund are believed to kill more
than 8,000 people a day.
(Reporting by Allison Lampert; Editing by Paul Simao)
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