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The Global AIDS Fund is in danger of running out of money, the US General Accounting Office (GAO) said on Wednesday.
"Pledges made for this year [2003] are insufficient to cover more than a small number of grants to developing countries," the GAO said in a statement.
The Fund has committed financing for 160 projects in 92 developing countries and estimates it will need at least US $1.4 billion more this year.
US president George W Bush recently pledged US $1.65 billion of a US $3.4 billion overall sum to the fund, provided other donors collectively match the sum two-to-one.
"We can't afford to squabble when there are 6 million people a year dying of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," the fund's executive director, Richard Feachem, said.
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