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 killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little fresh cash for the poor.
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An organization fighting tuberculosis worldwide said on Tuesday it has a 60 percent funding shortfall for this year and appealed to the United States and other countries to help.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced...
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria urged donors on Friday to pay up what they have pledged by the end of next month or risk seeing the United States cut short its contribution.
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The world&#39;s richest nations need to show greater commitment towards Africa, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, amid concern that pledges on aid and development were falling short.
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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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President Bush called on Congress today to provide $30 billion toward battling the global AIDS crisis over the first five years after he leaves office, a doubling of the current U.S. commitment.
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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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The US embassy has revealed that more than US $72 million was spent on HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa over the past five months.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders lobbied the  Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  on Wednesday to solve a cash crunch but were told a new round  of funding was likely to be delayed by several months.
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The leaders of the Group of Eight met with African leaders on their summit's concluding day Friday, agreeing on a $60 billion package to fight disease in Africa as diplomats worked behind the scenes on a possible deal with Russia over Kosovo's future.
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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.
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Public health experts accused the World Bank Tuesday of neglecting Africa's fight against tuberculosis, saying the institution should spend more fighting a disease whose resurgence in recent years has been linked to AIDS.
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Watchdog development groups accused the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday of doing too little to help the global battle against HIV/AIDS, but the two institutions responded that they are at the forefront of the struggle.
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Rock star activist Bono led attacks on the Group of Eight&#39;s 60-billion dollar pledge to fight killer diseases Friday, accusing world powers of using &quot;bureau-babble&quot; to hide their failure to help Africa.
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Donors pledged $9.7 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a fund-raising conference in Berlin, well short of the $15 billion to $18 billion the fund had hoped to raise.
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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.