(From L) Irish rock band U2 singer Bono, Microsoft founder and Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates and French President Emmanuel Macron attend the announcement of the final amount raised for the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria on October 10, 2019, in Lyon, central eastern France.
October 9, 2019
US$13.92b pledged for AIDS, TB, malaria fund, just below target
LYON, France (AFP) — Governments, businesses and philanthropists pledged $13.92 billion Thursday to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, just short of the US$14 billion targeted, French President Emmanuel Macron announced.
Despite the shortfall, Macron told delegates in Lyon he had launched a fundraising drive with billionaire Bill Gates and he was “convinced” the deficit would be made up within weeks.
Organisers say US$14 billion would help save 16 million lives and avert 234 million infections by 2023.
