US extends deadline for contributions to Global Fund for AIDS
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PRETORIA -- The Bush administration said yesterday it would extend by two months a deadline for other countries to contribute roughly $240 million to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an amount that is required before the United States releases its full pledge.
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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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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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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it's awarding $287 million in grants over five years to create an international network of scientists to speed up the development of an AIDS vaccine.
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he rest of the world has contributed so little to the fight against AIDS that the United States cannot make its full contribution this year, President Bush&#39;s global AIDS coordinator said yesterday.
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U.S. President George W. Bush  granted an extension on Wednesday to a policy that allows  Liberians to live and work in the United States on a temporary  basis.
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The United States further increased its aid commitment to South and East Asian countries affected by Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami disaster to $35 million.
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The Nasdaq stock market has granted a request from Dell toÂ extend a deadline for filing late reportsÂ with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced.
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President George W. Bush on Wednesday asked the U.S. Congress to double the U.S. financial commitment to combat AIDS globally, particularly in hard-hit Africa, to $30 billion over five years starting next year.
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An international fund and families of HIV-infected children in Libya have not yet agreed a financial package for them, a lawyer for foreign medics sentenced to death in the case said on Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO -  The waiting game for thousands of U.S. patrons with money tied up in an online payment service under federal investigation just got longer. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York late Wednesday said it extended the deadline until March 16 to decide whether to indict the co-founders of Neteller, an Internet money-transfer service popular among gamblers. Stephen Lawrence and John Lefebvre were arrested in January on a charge of conspiracy to transfer funds with the intent to promote illegal gambling
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation took its support of AIDS-related research and care to a new level Wednesday, announcing a half-billion-dollar grant to a global fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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The Bush administration&#39;s global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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The world's top AIDS donors, including the U.S. president's fund, need to tie the fight against the deadly virus to preventing the rape and abuse of women and girls, rights groups said on Tuesday.
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George Bush announced today that the US plans to spend $30bn (Â£15bn) over five years in Africa and elsewhere to combat HIV/Aids.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Agency for International Development is adding $20 million to an initial $15 million contribution for Asian earthquake relief as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell bristled at a United Nations official's suggestion the United States has been "stingy."