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The world's wealthiest nations are failing to assist the Global AIDS Fund, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said.
In a recent statement, the head of the European Red Cross Network on AIDS, Dr Massimo Barra, said the world's wealthiest countries - including the US, Britain, Japan and Australia - had reneged on commitments to the Fund.
Barra said without new money, the Fund would be forced to scale back life-saving programmes to combat infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The Fund, which was established in 2002 to pool public and private resources for tackling the three pandemics, faces an estimated shortfall of at least US $500 million for 2003.
IFRC said such a lack of involvement undermined the Fund's goal of ensuring that 3 million people in the developing world had access to treatment by 2005.
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