Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB, Malaria: bleak future ahead

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The Lancet
Oct 16, 2010  Volume 376 Number 9749 Pages 1273 – 1362
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
The Global Fund: a bleak future ahead
The Lancet

Extract
On Oct 5, at the third replenishment conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, donors pledged US$11.7 billion for 2011–13—a sum that falls badly short of what is needed. The world is backsliding on its commitments, made recently at the Millennium Development Goal Summit in New York, to expand access for millions of people to life-saving interventions.