The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria hopes to raise over $12 billion (58 mia. d. kr) by 2012 to help some of the world’s poorest nations fight the diseases, its chairman said on Monday.
Rajat Gupta expressed confidence that the fund could raise the money after it secured $100 million (knap 500 mio. d. kr.) in the past 18 months.
The money we are mobilizing will help us mitigate the effects of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria especially in the worst affected countries, Gupta said on a visit to Zambia, among southern African countries ravaged by HIV/AIDS.
Sixty eight percent of all people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than three quarters of all AIDS-related deaths in 2007 occurred.
Data shows that approximately one million of Zambia’s 12 million people are HIV positive and about 300,000 are in need of antiretroviral therapy
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