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French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday urged donor nations to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warning that gains made in rolling back the killer diseases risked being reversed due to donor fatigue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The UN objective of ending epidemics of the three ailments by 2030 remained within reach, he told a two-day donor meeting in the city of Lyon, if countries stepped up to the plate with a sum of $14-billion.<\/p>\n
But with the conference due to wind up in the afternoon, the French president indicated there was a race against the clock to reach the target. Based on pledges so far \u201cwe are not there\u201d, Macron told delegates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe funds that are being asked of us are not… charity. It is a decision to invest against injustice,\u201d said the president, highlighting the disproportionate rate of infection and deaths from AIDS, TB and malaria in poor countries, and among women and girls.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we want to do is to make AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria disappear from the face of the Earth,\u201d he added to applause, and announced that France, the fund\u2019s number-two donor, will boost its own contribution by 15 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe multilateral system is tired,\u201d Macron lamented.<\/p>\n
He complained that resolve has weakened in many rich donor countries given that fewer people there are dying of the three diseases and that treatment, particularly for HIV, was readily available.<\/p>\n
But they remained rampant in the developing world. \u201cThere is a risk of slackening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Fund says $14 billion would help save 16 million lives and avert 234 million new infections.<\/p>\n
According to the UN\u2019s World Health Organization, 770,000 people died of HIV-related causes last year. Tuberculosis, a high risk for HIV-positive people, claimed some 1.7 million lives in 2017, and malaria more than 430,000.<\/p>\n
The meeting is the sixth to replenish the fund since it was set up in 2002, with prominent supporters including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and U2 lead singer Bono in attendance alongside a number of African heads of state.<\/p>\n
But officials said collecting such a large sum could prove challenging, especially as global attention moves from AIDS towards fighting climate change.<\/p>\n
Anything more than the $12.2 billion pledged at the fund\u2019s last meeting three years ago in Montreal \u201cwill be considered a success\u201d, said an official in the French presidency.<\/p>\n
Macron, however, insisted yesterday that $14 billion \u201cis the minimum\u201d, and warned: \u201cI will not allow anyone to leave this room, nor Lyon, until the $14 billion has been obtained.\u201d<\/p>\n
NGOs insist even more is needed — as much as $18 billion.<\/p>\n
Peter Sands, executive director of the Fund, warned delegates on Wednesday that the world was at a crossroads: \u201cDo we step up or do we slip back against adversaries as formidable as HIV, TB and malaria? There is no middle ground. We\u2019re either winning or losing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62,646,1671,53],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aids-hiv","tag-aids","tag-malaria","tag-tb","tag-treatment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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