Press Release: European Commissioner Piebalgs proposes 10% increase in funding to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GATFM)

Andris Piebalgs, the European Commissioner for Development, has participatd in the Third Voluntary Replenishment Pledging Conference of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York. Two weeks after the UN High-level Plenary Meeting on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs,) the Global Fund is calling for a replenishment of its resources for the year 2011 – 2013. If approved, the contribution of the EU to the Global Fund could increase at least by 10% for 2011 – 2013, reaching €330 million.

European Commission: Speech/10/516: Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner responsible for development, "The Commission increases its contribution to the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria ", Global Fund's pledging session, New York, 5 October 2010 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/516&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Memo/10/470: The EU contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/470&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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