The Lancet  
Nov 05, 2011  Volume 378  Number 9803  p1605 – 1676 e3 – 5
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Offline: The hypocritic oath
Richard Horton

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Key Global Fund donors—led by the US, UK, and Canadian governments—last week tried to destroy a pillar of the Fund’s new 5-year strategy, which seeks to open a door to an expanded role for the Fund in maternal, newborn, and child health. It was an astonishing attack against an organisation whose recipient countries and partners want urgently to broaden the Fund’s remit beyond the narrow agenda of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. In April, 2010, the Board made a commitment to encourage countries to integrate maternal and child health into their applications for AIDS, TB, and malaria funding.