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Health official praises Kuwait''s USD 2 mln support for global fund |
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Sunday, 01 November 2009 23:59 |
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An international health official on Sunday here praised Kuwait's support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which reached to USD two million.
An international financing institution that invests the world's money to save lives, the fund has committed USD 15.6 billion in 140 countries to support large-scale prevention, treatment and care programs -- up to 572 programs -- against the three diseases, Patricia Maqqar, Chief Officer at the fund told KUNA.
She added that the main objective of her visit to the country is to sustain cooperation relations between the fund and Kuwait, pointing out that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are the only Arab countries contributing to the fund along with the Group of eight most industrialized nations (G8).
The fund also serves 16 countries in the Middle East region and Africa, as more than 2.5 million people have benefited from the AIDS treatment and awareness program.
Maqqar, during her visit, will hold meeting with a number of officials at the ministries of foreign and health, as well as the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development.
The Geneva-based fund is a unique global public-private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Since it establishment in 2002, the fund provided a quarter of all international financing for AIDS globally, two-thirds for tuberculosis and three quarters for malaria. - Kuna
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