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FUNDING FOR AIDS AND THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB, AND
MALARIA (GFATM)
BUSH, THE G8, AND RESOURCES FOR TREATMENT
BACKGROUND:
The Bush Administration refuses to spend the amount of money needed to
fight AIDS in impoverished countries and right here at home. Current
funding levels for global and local AIDS treatment programs are
shamefully low. The Senate is debating the fiscal year 2006 budget. We
need to win support for the highest possible funding levels for
effective programs now, to prevent needless suffering and death.
President
Bush only wants to spend $3 billion next year on global AIDS, mainly on
his unilateral AIDS plan (PEPFAR). But programs that are up and running
and saving lives now, like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria, need full funding from the U.S. The Bush Administration
has refused to give its fair share, and the Global Fund is facing
bankruptcy as a result. This year, U.S. funding will not even reach
Bush's commitment to contribute 33% of overall global pledges to the
fund. We don't have time to waste waiting. We need at least $3.8
billion for global AIDS, including at least $840 million for the Global
Fund by the end of the year.
The
Bush Administration claims that they are spending enough on global
AIDS. This is a lie. With 42 million people infected, and 8500 people
dying each day, this money could easily be spent by effective,
accountable programs like the Global Fund.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
CALL
THE WHITE HOUSE TO SUPPORT INCREASED FUNDING FOR GLOBAL AIDS.
Over 42
million people are infected, more than 8,000 die every day.
3
million children worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS.
More
than 14 million children are orphaned due to HIV/AIDS.
But,
there is hope. Prevention methods and treatments do exist and do work.
HEALTH GAP STATEMENTS AND PAPERS
- September 6,
2005 (London) Final pledges of money to the replenishment of the
Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria fall drastically short of what was
needed. The $3.7 billion pledged by donors is enough to sustain current
programs. However, no funding for new prevention, treatment or care
programmes for 2006 and 2007 was forthcoming. The disappointing U.S.
pledge today of $600 over 2006 and 2007 is far less than the U.S.
commitment to funding one-third of the Global Fund's needs of $7.1
billion over the two years.
Press Release
June 29,
2005 Will the G8 Learn the Lessons of 3 by 5, or Announce More
Empty Promises?
Health GAP released the following reaction to WHO's 'Report on Progress
on Global Access to Antiretroviral Therapy, an Update on 3 by 5' (the
full report is available at www.who.int/3by5). Health
GAP Press statement
- April 20, 2005
(Geneva) Health GAP delivers letter to Board Members of the Global Fund
the Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
and the Secretariat to Fix the Global Fund Now and address the ongoing
crisis of delays in implementation of Global Fund financed HIV
treatment programs.
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- March 8, 2005
(Manhattan) Health GAP responds to UNAIDS shrinking its projections of
resource needs for global AIDS by 2007 under pressure from donor
countries.
Health GAP Press Release
- WORLD AIDS
DAY, 2004 Take action this week to save the Global AIDS Fund!
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- November 18,
2004 (Arusha, Tanzania) Health GAP today strongly condemned actions
by the United States that have led to the postponement of lifesaving
grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The Global Fund, meeting this week in Arusha, Tanzania, was scheduled
to announce a fifth round of grants during the meeting, but postponed
receiving new proposals until March, 2005 with new awards being
announced in September. Health
GAP Press Release
- November 16,
2004 (Arusha, Tanzania) Over 150 AIDS activists and people living
with HIV/AIDS from Kenya and other countries will be demonstrating
outside the Arusha International Conference Center November 17, the
start of the Global Fund's 9th Board Meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, to
demand the immediate launch of the Global Fund's 5th Round of grants.
Health GAP Press Release
- November 2004
(Arusha) Health GAP Fact Sheet: "Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and
Malaria: What's at Stake at the Fund's Board Meeting in Arusha,
November 18-19," November 2004.
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- September
23, 2004 (New York) Health GAP and Jubilee USA hold
teleconference for journalists: "100% DEBT CANCELLATION FOR POOREST
COUNTRIES NEEDED TO FIGHT AIDS."
Media Advisory | Complete transcript of the teleconference call:
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- August 03,
2004 (Philadelphia) The announcement of approval by the Food and
Drug Administration of two drugs designed to be distributed as part of
the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will not significantly
alter the landscape for treatment of millions of people living with
HIV/AIDS in the world's poor nations.
Health GAP News Release
- July 3-11,
2004 (Bangkok) Thai and U.S. AIDS Treatment Activists Demand
Accountability and Action on Global AIDS at the XV International AIDS
Conference--People with HIV demand real "Access for All" at Opening Day
March. People living with HIV/AIDS and AIDS activists address discuss
key policy issues regarding access to affordable treatment and
comprehensive, science based prevention ahead of the XV International
AIDS Conference scheduled for 11 July -16 July in Bangkok. The
activists are holding a global protest and march on the opening day of
the conference to demand accountability from heads of states, agencies,
and individuals obstructing or failing to effectively address the gaps
and inequities in HIV/AIDS treatment access, and demand real access for
all.
Coalition Media Advisory | (Bangkok) Thai Treatment Activists Join
US Group in Announcing Plans for XV International AIDS Conference
Protest
Media Statement | Thai and International Activists Plan Protest at
International AIDS Conference. March and Rally to be held. Health
GAP Press Release
- July 12, 2004
(Bangkok) Activists from around the world joined their Thai
counterparts today putting leaders of the G-7 nations Òon
trialÓ for their lack of support for the Global Fund. The group
displayed oversized portraits of the heads of state and listed the
charges against the seven. Health
GAP Press Release
- July 4, 2004
(Bangkok) The Global Fund Board Takes a
Resource Mobilization Vacation-- Next Round Would be Dominated by HIV
Treatment Scale-Up Proposals but is a Fantasy Unless Donors Pay. At the
8th Board Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria June 28-30 in Geneva, donor countries who sit on the Board
prevented the timely, fully financed launch of the next "Call for
Proposals" for Global Fund financing--the 5th Round of grants.
Health GAP Media Advisory
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