AIDS Foundation Pledges $10m To Global Fund

Ahead of the Seventh Replenishment Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York on Sept. 21, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an NGO, has pledged 10 million dollars.

AHF’s Marketing Manager in Nigeria, Mr Steve Aborisade, announced this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.

He stated that the global fund was the world’s best financing mechanism for fighting infectious diseases.

Aborishade quoted AHF’s President, Michael Weinstein as saying:

“Given the global fund’s outstanding track record of saving lives around the world, we feel our pledge is one of the best investments donors can make in global health.

“The global fund has demonstrated remarkable nimbleness in keeping existing programmes going, while mobilising new resources for COVID-19.

“The global fund also values the role of non-governmental and community organisations in creating a more equitable and sustainable public health system.

“We hope this pledge encourages wealthy donor countries, NGOs, and the private sector to contribute their fair share to the Fund so that it can meet or exceed the fundraising goal of 18 billion dollars.”

Weinstein said that on Sept. 21, donors would gather in New York to announce their commitments, including wealthy G7 and G20 countries, Germany, United States, Canada, among others.

He said that the outcome of the gathering would determine if the 18 billion dollars goal would be achieved.