Global Fund Head Highlights Financing Challenges

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine recently highlighted the fund's financial challenges and said he would spend most of his time traveling to obtain commitments until October when U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to chair a major pledging conference, Agence France-Presse reports. "The challenge for us in 2010 is to build on the results and mobilise the international community in a very difficult context," he said. "These resources will largely determine where the world will be in 2015 with the health related (U.N.) Millennium Development Goals," by their target date, Kazatchkine said. He noted that he will seek funding from Gulf countries and the Organisation of Islamic Conference states (4/26).

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