Kenyan AIDS activists are planning to rally outside a hotel in Arusha in northern Tanzania, where Global AIDS Fund board members will be meeting on 18 and 19 November.
The activists fear a cash shortfall could prevent the Fund from launching a new round of grants in developing countries at the end of 2004.
Agence France-Presse quoted Nick Maisha, an official with the NGO, Movement of Men against AIDS in Kenya, as saying: "We cannot afford to have the fund shut its doors to new grant requests that could save lives and give people hope."
Since its inception in 2002, the Fund has experienced a number of financing problems, mainly due to donor countries not living up to their promises.
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