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Disappointing Global Fund contribution from US - activists

    JOHANNESBURG

    An international civil society organisation has expressed disappointment over the United States' final cash pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

    According to the Global AIDS Alliance, the US $600 million contributed by the US this week was far less than its commitment to funding one-third of the Global Fund's needs of $7.1 billion over 2006 and 2007.

    The organisation warned that the funding gap could cost millions of lives.

    "By breaking that promise [the US] is letting down the most vulnerable people in the world. If his commitment to Africa is real, then words are not enough," the Alliance's David Bryden told reporters at the Global Fund's replenishment conference in London on Tuesday.

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