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day over 8,000 people died of HIV in Africa."
Sharon Ann Lynch of the US group Health GAP Coalition, said that money
should be allocated immediately to treatment programmes that already exist
rather than delaying: "They are focusing on improving overall health
care systems while 10,000 people a day are dying because of lack of drugs."
Zackie Achmat of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign accused the
Global Fund of being too slow at an activist meeting in Brussels: "They
are losing political momentum and they are showing no visible signs of
commitment to providing antiretroviral drugs to poor people."
Chancellor Gordon Brown has committed the British government to more money
for the Global Fund. The UK currently spends less than half of the 0.7
per cent of GDP it has promised on foreign aid.
Julian Meldrum, international editor of the National Aids Manual, said
although present funding commitments to the Global Fund are "inadequate,
this is not a reason to despair or give up on the project."
The first meeting of the Global Fund's governing body is due this month,
Meldrum explained, and if governments are to put large amounts of public
money into the system they must know how it will operate.
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