The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that “countries that benefit from its support are putting more people on life-saving AIDS treatment and preventing more babies from being born with HIV than ever before amid severe funding constraints stemming from the economic crisis.” The Global Fund’s Executive Director Professor Michel Kazatchkine “appealed to donors to increase funding, saying that while the latest results showed that programs supported by the Global Fund were delivering remarkable results, far more could be achieved with additional resources.” Professor Kazatchkine noted, “Millions of people in poor countries are relying on the Global Fund to stay alive and healthy so that they can lead normal, productive lives. But millions of others may not be reached by treatment because we lack the financial resources further to expand health programs on the scale that is required. The poor and the vulnerable must not be made to pay the price for the global financial crisis.”

http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/mediacenter/pressreleases/2011-11-30_Global_Fund-supported_programs_see_strong_results_amid_funding_challenges/