The city of Lyon welcomed, Wednesday, October 9, the contributors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. At the opening, Health Minister Agnès Buzyn urged them to "step up" their commitment to "send a strong and ambitious signal".
"I count on each and every one of you to raise the necessary funds to give the Global Fund the means to support the countries most affected" by the three pandemics, she said at the Fund's funding conference. period 2020-2022.
"We are here to send a strong signal, a collective signal, universal and ambitious," continued Agnès Buzyn, while the goal of funding, set at $ 14 billion, may not be achieved.
With this fund, we will reach millions of people to prevent them from becoming infected and die from diseases that we now know how to prevent and treat. Scientific progress must benefit everyone and serve a common good: health. @GlobalFund
Agnès Buzyn (@agnesbuzyn) October 9, 2019A floor that is "not attainable", according to Aides
The association Aides assured that this floor was "not reachable" to date, estimating that it misses from 200 to 500 million dollars. A group of 12 civil society organizations, including Aides, Oxfam, Solidarité Sida and Sidaction, called in a statement "an increase of the French contribution of at least 25%".
The Elysee admitted himself this week that the total amount could be less than this sum, Thursday, during the announcement of the host president Emmanuel Macron. "All of us, states, companies, researchers, NGOs, citizens have the responsibility today to intensify our investments," urged the minister, recalling that "France is the second largest donor (of the Fund) with more than 4, 6 billion euros of accumulated donations ".
Created in 2002, the Global Fund is an original partnership between states, civil society, the private sector and the sick. Half of its funding goes to the fight against AIDS and half to malaria and tuberculosis. Its goal is to eradicate these pandemics by 2030.
In its latest report, in September, the organization claimed 32 million lives saved since its creation, but warned of "new threats" jeopardizing its objectives: "the stagnation of funding", but also the development of "resistance to drugs "against malaria and tuberculosis.
With AFP