Julie Bishop address to Council 2010
Global Fund Ten Year Anniversary - A time for Australia to exercise global leadership in the fight against HIV
Results
January 27, 2012
Two leading community sector organizations have issued an urgent call to the Australian Government to bring forward its financial commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, or risk jeopardizing crucial advances in HIV treatment and prevention.
The Global Fund will mark its tenth anniversary this Saturday - a decade in which it has become the dominant funder of programs against the three diseases, saving 100,000 lives every month.
But the recent economic downturn has seen a number of donor countries either scale back or fail to deliver on their commitments to the Fund, posing a threat to the Fund's work and prompting the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and RESULTS International (Australia) to call on the Commonwealth Government to bolster funding and bring it forward, given Australia's relative economic strength
Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships
Long Term Afghanistan Aid Commitment Applauded