GENEVA (AP) — A financially troubled global health fund says millions of people will suffer if donations continue to dry up, as European and United States budget constraints bite and a backlash continues over losses to corruption and other misspending.
"The poor and the vulnerable must not be made to pay the price for the global financial crisis," Michel Kazatchkine, the fund's executive director, said in a statement Wednesday. "Now is not the time to abandon millions of people who are still in need."
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has disbursed $15 billion since 2002. It provides HIV treatment to patients in poor nations, along with two-thirds of all …
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