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$2.75bn to fight Aids, TB, malaria

2008-11-11 09:16

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'Grave concern' over Aids deaths
'Grave concern' over Aids deaths

The SA Medical Association says it is "gravely concerned" about HIV/Aids statistics which show a huge Aids-related leap in South Africa's death rate.

New Delhi - The multilateral Global Fund said on Monday that it has approved $2.75bn in fresh grants over two years to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.

With the latest injection, total grants approved by the Geneva-based fund have increased to $14.4bn in 140 countries, the body said.

"This is the highest amount of new financing approved by the Global Fund ever," Rajat Gupta, chairperson of the fund's board said in a statement issued at the end of a two-day board meeting here.

The new funds will help in improving access to Aids treatment and prevention and help cut deaths from tuberculosis and malaria in half by 2015, Gupta said.

The Global Fund, created by the G8 group of industrialised nations in 2002, accounts for one quarter of all international donations to fight Aids, two-thirds for TB and three-quarters for malaria.

- AFP

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JS says... Centurion is the same. The waste guys are suddenly working overtime on a constant basis (after striking) and now my tax money must fund their overtime(and my W&L went up from R600 to R1600). It is unacceptable, there should be an investigation and heads should roll. Mugabe can come and learn from you guys just how to be corrupt and drain an economy.

What we need is a National Tax Trust fund where we can pay all our taxes and municipal monies into until we are SAFE, get service delivery, governmental and municipal fraud stops. This is the only way they will learn the crime does not pay. Hopefully one of the major law firms or companies like Deloitte and Touche can come to light and start a trust for the SA public. People over the whole spectrum should benefit by supporting this idea. Government will then only be able to lay their filthy hands on our money after stopping corruption, getting rid of ALL the culprits and employing capable, honest people. Read the article...

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