Global Fund fundraising drive comes up well short of target

The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis has raised only about half of the funds it was seeking for 2006 and 2007. The shortfall in funding means that many programs to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis cannot proceed, at a time when countries should be scaling up their responses. "The current funding gap will have devastating effects," said Anandi Yuvaraj, a Global Fund Board member, "depriving poor women, men and children from the hope of accessing life-saving prevention and treatment services...".