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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
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Malaria was created in two thousand two. It is an del.icio.us
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partnerships. A new report from the Global Fund LISTEN TO VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH

says almost five million lives have been saved News & Features
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Global Fund has approved proposals for more
than nineteen billion dollars to fight HIV/AIDS, FROM VOANEWS
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The report says two and one-half million people infected with HIV now are the latest events around the
being treated with antiretroviral medicines. It says there has been a major globe
decrease in AIDS deaths in many countries as a result. More »

The report also says about six million people with active tuberculosis are
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being treated for the disease. The number of deaths from TB is dropping
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The Global Fund has given out more than one hundred million bed nets in its
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mosquitoes. The report says ten of the countries in Africa with the highest
cases of malaria have reported decreases in new cases. An increasing
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Rifat Atun is director of strategy, performance and evaluation at the Global agriculture and more
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thousand six hundred lives every day last year. And he says more lives can
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RIFAT ATUN: “We can, for example, given the rate of investment, eliminate special@voanews.com
malaria as a public health problem, we can prevent millions of more HIV
infections and also in tuberculosis. But most importantly, we can look to a
world that is free of HIV infection in children. We can virtually eliminate
transmission of HIV from mother to child.” SHORT REPORTS

The Global Fund was established as a financial tool. It has several guiding Agriculture Report
ideas. It works to support programs that come from national plans and More »
goals. It tries to find balance in dealing with places, diseases and
interventions. And the Global Fund is open in its work to avoid corruption or
the appearance of corruption.
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Most of the money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
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