Nations and Groups Promise $12 Billion to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria

 Global Fund មូលនិធិសាកល                conference សន្និសិទ                resource mobilization ការប្រមូលផ្តុំធនធាន      Still ទោះជាយ៉ាងនេះក្តី                               proposed ស្នើ

Partnership ភាពជាដៃគូរ                      tuberculosis របេង                    treatment ការព្យាបាល

Cases ករណី                                        estimate ប៉ាន់ស្មាន                  existing ដែលមានស្រេច

Last កន្លងទៅ                                       reachable អាចបំពេញបាន       malaria- endemic- countries​ប្រទេសឆ្លងរាលដាលជំងឺគ្រុនចាញ់                                       met បំពេញ                              attended ចូលរួម

Ever មិនធ្លាប់មាន                                 top five ប្រទេស៥ខាងលើ

International donors have promised almost twelve billion dollars to the Global Fund to Fights Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The Global Fund held a two-day conference in October in New York City. This is the largest pledge the eight-years-old organization has ever received. Stefan Emblad is the director of resource mobilization. He said the fund received a twenty percent increase in contributions. Still the pledges were a billion dollars below the lowest estimate of the amount needed to fight the diseases effectively.

In March, the Global Fund proposed three different plans, from thirteen to twenty billion dollars. The Global Fund is a partnership of public and private organization. This fund has become the main source of money for programs to treat and prevent AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Donations support programs in more than one hundred forty countries.

Nearly three million people are receiving treatment for the AIDS virus through Global Fund Programs. One hundred forty-three million people receive malaria drugs. And seven million new cases of TB have been diagnosed and treated since the fund began in two thousand two. Global Fund officials estimate that the programs have saved more than five million lives. Stefan Emblad says these efforts will continue. He said the organization will not be cutting funding to any of the existing programs. Those programs will continue over the next few years to put more people on treatment and to have more prevention and care efforts. But they will not be at same level as in the last two years.  Mr. Emblad says some of the Millennium Development Goals are still reachable with this new level of funding.

He said: “We could eliminate malaria as a public health treat in malaria- endemic- countries. We could also eliminate the transmission of HIV from pregnant mothers to their unborn babies.” He said these goals could be met by twenty fifteen if countries see them as most important.

More than forty donor countries, organizations and businesses attended the conference in New York. The United Stated promised to give four billion dollars over the next three years, the largest donors pledge ever. The United States was the first donor to the fund and remains the largest. France is second, followed by Japan, Britain and Canada among the top five.