G8's $60 bln AIDS and Africa pledge criticized
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.
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Despite large amounts dedicated to the fight against AIDS, UK Secretary of International Development Hilary Benn has said that more money is required.
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Aid will go towards free schooling and the fight against Aids - but aid groups say it is less than was promised two years ago.
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The Group of Eight wealthiest nations pledged 60 billion dollars Friday to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa and uphold an earlier promise to boost development aid.
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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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South Africa's ruling party has  accused top U.S. officials of treating Africans like guinea  pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before  a U.S.-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent.
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Anti-poverty and anti-globalisation campaigners meeting at a parallel forum to counter the G8 summit on Wednesday took industrialised nations to task over unfulfilled pledges made two years ago to the world&#39;s poorest.
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Comment is free: Elton John: Millions of people with HIV hope that the G8 will remember its pledge to them next week.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 22 -- Global health officials on Friday called for a quadrupling of spending to combat highly lethal, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis spreading through Eastern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia.
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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to cement a positive part of his legacy, President Bush yesterday asked Congress to double the funding of the US global AIDS program to $30 billion over five years, which sets goals of helping support AIDS treatment of 2.5 million people.
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China's big spending in Africa drew a mixed response at a global aid meeting in Vietnam, where many welcomed the giant's new role on the continent but some voiced disquiet about its intentions.
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers will turn their attention to Africa on Friday and are widely expected to announce a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases.
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World powers on Friday  pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging  Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of  Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.
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The Group of Seven wealthy nations on  Saturday pledged to help rid the world's poorest countries of  their crippling debt, launching a program that fell short of  the immediate action demanded by Africa.
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LONDON -- Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and efforts to improve the status of women around the world, the United Nations said yesterday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.