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Article: Global Fund's grants show substantial impact.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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WITH NEARLY 400 GRANTS APPROVED, the programmes financed by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are proving that treatment and prevention efforts are working where money is invested. The Global Fund works to increase resources to fight these diseases, in close cooperation with other multilateral and bilateral organizations to ensure that newly funded programmes are coordinated with existing ones. As of April 2006, newly-compiled performance results show that 544,000 people have begun antiretroviral (ARV) treatment through these programmes, up from 384,000 six months ago and more than a fourfold increase since December 2004.
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