Africa Lobbies for More AIDS, TB, Malaria Funds
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders will lobby the  Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital  for the continent's health, officials said.
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Canada and most other members of the G8 are failing to meet their fair share of the cost of financing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global AIDS Alliance said Thursday.
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Southern African countries, the world's region worst affected by AIDS, have been urged to embrace male circumcision to partially prevent the spread of HIV.
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The World Health Organization urged political leaders in the Western Pacific region to step up efforts to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, saying the number of infections continues to grow.
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WASHINGTON -- The board overseeing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has narrowed the choice for its new executive director to three candidates -- two European global health specialists and an African physician who has quickly established a system of AIDS treatment centers in Uganda, officials confirmed yesterday.
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The government said Tuesday it would donate one billion pounds (1.4 billion euros, two billion dollars) over eight years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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As many as half a million lives  could be saved every year in Africa if governments combine  their approach to tackle a rampant AIDS epidemic with measures  to treat tuberculosis, health experts said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations envoy on AIDS urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to persuade the world's richest countries to provide more funds to step up treatment of the disease in Africa.
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year.
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.
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The United Nations hopes that a high-level meeting on AIDS starting Wednesday will bring a surge of new funding to fight the disease, after a report warned that the epidemic continues to spread and &#36;20 billion will be needed each year to fight it by 2008.
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Fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum.
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said it had agreed to consider releasing another round of grants in September next year.
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Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged developed countries to do more for Africa, including opening their markets to trade.
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The UK and other nations are to set up a fund to speed the development of new vaccines for poorer countries.
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Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former President Nelson Mandela and rock star Bono, according to the government news agency, BuaNews.