PHA-Exch> UN-BACKED GLOBAL FUND TREATS NEARLY 1.5 MILLION LIVING WITH HIV

[Claudio Schuftan]

.From: Vern Weitzel <vern at coombs.anu.edu.au>
crossposted from: "[health-vn discussion group]" health-vn at cairo.anu.edu.au

UN-BACKED GLOBAL FUND TREATS NEARLY 1.5 MILLION LIVING WITH HIV
New York, Nov 30 2007  1:00PM
Almost doubling last year's results, the United Nations-backed Global Fund
to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria <"
http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/media_center/press/pr_071130.asp">announced
today that over 1.4 million people living with HIV have received
antiretroviral
(ARV) treatment through programmes it supports.

Progress has also been made in the fight against tuberculosis – the leading
cause of death among those infected with HIV – with over 3.3 million people
treated with effective drugs through schemes receiving Fund support.

Regarding malaria, the Fund announced earlier this week that programmes it
supports have delivered 46 million bed nets, up from 18 million last year,
to
families at risk.

"These results are the living proof that Global Fund investments are
working,"
said Rajat Gupta, Chairman of the Fund's Board. "These positive figures
should
be an incentive to all donors, partners and the many health professionals
working in the field to continue to bring the fight against the three
diseases
to a new level in the years to come."

Along with the United States' President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,
the
Fund finances most major AIDS treatment and prevention initiatives in
developing
countries.

Earlier this month at a meeting in China, the Fund's Board approved funding
for
73 new grants totaling $1.1 billion over two years, bringing the total to
$9.8
billion for over 520 programmes in 136 countries.
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