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DATELINE: 25 SEPTEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
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25 SEPTEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO:
“This kind of what I call transformative partnership, civil society, big pharmas, foundations, and the UN organizations are coming together to really address the plight of people suffering from neglected tropical diseases. And let me make one point very clear. The people that are suffering the most from these diseases are women and children.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabriel Jaramillo, General Manager of the Global Fund:
“Money is more scarce and therefore we have to manage it better. We have to be more efficient. We have to respond to that reality, and all that is happening. And as we celebrate so much that has been achieved, over these ten years and how much the countries and how good the countries are getting at managing and creating their health systems and how much they are doing in the fight against these diseases. We do need a big push as Dr. Chan indicated, and funding will be there if we respond, and respond with the kind of language that stressed economies require.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO:
“At the global level, it is important for advocacy, for resource mobilization, for political leadership and commitment to protect the people. But then all this talk, all these resources must reach the poor. If we fail to reach the poor we miss the point.”
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The UN and its partners in world health issues today (25 September) announced the launch of The Big Push, a campaign to raise support for global health goals.
The campaign was initiated by organizations that are mobilizing efforts to reach health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other UN bodies dedicated to fighting malaria.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan told a press conference on the sidelines of the UN’s 67th General Debate in New York that a “transformative partnership” of civil society, pharmaceutical companies, the UN organizations and private partners is coming together “to really address the plight of people suffering from neglected tropical diseases.”
Chan emphasized that “the people that are suffering the most from these diseases are women and children.”
Reducing child mortality rates and improving maternal health are long-term goals that have been strongly endorsed by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has supported numerous programs that focus on eliminating deaths from malaria among women of child-bearing age and among children under the age of five, the most vulnerable populations. In many cases, additional funding is needed to expand successful programs into areas where demand has not been met.
Gabriel Jaramillo, General Manager of the Global Fund lauded the global health achievements of the last ten years, but said that at a time when donor countries are going through economic hardship “money is more scarce and therefore we have to manage it better.”
He added that “funding will be there if we respond, and respond with the kind of language that stressed economies require.”
New results of Global Fund-supported programs show that by mid-2012 the number of pregnant women living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral prophylaxis to prevent them from infecting their babies with the virus rose by 50 per cent to 1.5 million between the end of 2010 and June 30 2012. The increase was 90 per cent compared with the end of 2009.
Chan said that “at the global level, it is important for advocacy, for resource mobilization, for political leadership and commitment to protect the people” but stressed that “these resources must reach the poor” and “if we fail to reach the poor we miss the point.”
The Global Fund is an international financing institution dedicated to attracting and disbursing resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, TB and malaria.
Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has approved funding of US$ 22.9 billion for more than 1,000 programs in 151 countries. To date, programs supported by the Global Fund have provided AIDS treatment for 3.6 million people, anti-tuberculosis treatment for 9.3 million people and 270 million insecticide-treated nets for the prevention of malaria. The Global Fund works in close collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral organizations to supplement existing efforts in dealing with the three diseases.
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