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MDG Summit: Funding The Global Fund; Arab World's 'Own Challenges'
BusinessDay reports that following last week's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit at the U.N. in New York, advocates "have called on rich nations to double their pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, saying it desperately needs more money if the world is to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015." According to the article, the advocates are concerned that the $40 billion maternal and child health initiative announced by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week at the summit "might divert money and attention from the Global Fund."
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