 
August 13, 2009
Global Fund Urges G20 to Increase HIV/AIDS Funding
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is encouraging emerging global powers—such as China, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa—to become bigger aid donors as a result of the global financial crisis, Reuters reports.
“As these countries come in and play more political leadership roles, they have to enter into the global solidarity effort when it comes to health,” said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund.
The Global Fund acquired $10 billion in pledges to fight the epidemic from countries in The Group of Eight (G8) for the years 2008 to 2010. However, it will soon need more donor nations to support the new three-year term from 2011 to 2013. It hopes countries from The Group of Twenty (G20) can help.
“I really think it is time for the G20, which is 85 percent of the world’s economy, to come into the circle of donors,” Kazatchkine said.
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