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World leaders deliver a successful replenishment of the Global Fund, stepping up to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria

Posted on Oct 10, 2019

Lyon, France (Oct 10) – The ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership applauds world leaders for pledging USD 13.92 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the next three years (2020–2022), with a commitment by President Emmanuel Macron, Bill Gates and Bono to rally the final USD 100 million by December.

On World TB Day, health advocates call on global leaders to commit to ending the disease

Posted on Mar 22, 2018

Washington, D.C. (March 22) – ACTION global health advocacy partnership is observing World Tuberculosis (TB) Day with new calls on world leaders to prioritize ending the disease. Caused by an airborne bacterium, TB is the world’s leading infectious disease killer, responsible for 1.7 million deaths per year and sickening more than 10 million in 2017.