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Japan pledges additional funds for global infectious diseases

    JOHANNESBURG

    Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, said on Thursday his country would pledge an additional US $500 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

    Koizumi's announcement was made ahead of the 6 to 8 July meeting of G8 leaders in Gleneagles, Scotland, where aid for Africa is expected to take centre stage.

    The Associated Press quoted Koizumi as saying, "We cannot tolerate a situation in which one person is killed every five seconds somewhere in the world by these three killer diseases."

    Earlier this month Japan also announced plans to spend $5 billion over the next five years on healthcare and disease prevention in poor countries, mainly in Africa.

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