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Global Fund Approves 79 Grants With Two-Year Commitment Of $1.7B
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Board of Directors on Wednesday approved 79 grants with a two-year commitment of "$1.7 billion dollars for projects against the diseases, amid warnings that some hard-hit African countries were being left out," Agence France-Presse reports. The commitment, according to Ethiopian Health Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who chair's the Global Fund's board, "shows that even in hard economic times, we can continue to expand the fight against the three diseases" (12/15).
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