{"id":2513,"date":"2016-09-20T04:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:26:12","slug":"global-fund-raises-12-9-billion-to-fight-aids-tb-and-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/09\/20\/global-fund-raises-12-9-billion-to-fight-aids-tb-and-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Global fund raises $12.9 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>global fund has raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday.<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector partners to raise a total of $13 billion at a donor conference in Montreal to support its activities over the next three years, starting in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can declare success for we have saved the lives of 8 million people in the coming years,&#8221; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters after attending the conference, which drew several heads of state, singer Bono and Microsoft Corp co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>The attention generated by the conference &#8220;has ensured that the donations are going to continue to flow in&#8221; during the coming weeks and months, Trudeau said.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Fund, the world&#8217;s largest aimed at fighting the three diseases, is credited with saving 20 million lives since it was established in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the knowledge and tools to end HIV, TB and malaria as epidemics by 2030, but we need to invest smartly and with focus to make it happen,&#8221; Mark Dybul, the fund&#8217;s executive director, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, the fund&#8217;s largest donor, in August pledged up to $4.3 billion through 2019. The amount is subject to congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>The three diseases targeted by the fund are believed to kill more than 8,000 people a day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>global fund has raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday. The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector partners to raise a total of $13 billion at a donor conference in Montreal to support its activities over the next three years, starting in 2017. &ldquo;We can declare success for we have saved the lives of 8 million people in the coming years,&rdquo; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}