Global Fund 10th Anniversary Media Briefing / Jeffrey Sachs and former Global Fund board chair to brief media on funding crisis threatening the Global Fund's effort to end AIDS
WASHINGTON, January 25, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- On the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health for Ethiopia and former board chair of the Global Fund, will participate in a media briefing by teleconference to discuss the current funding crisis that has forced the Global Fund to stop making new grants for the next two years.
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The Global Fund has financed and catalyzed unprecedented success over the past decade, and currently saves an estimated 100,000 lives each month. Now, due to projected donor funding shortfalls, new Global Fund efforts to scale-up life-saving health programs are in jeopardy.
What: Media briefing call highlighting the Global Fund's success over the past decade and the struggle it now faces due to the current funding crisis
Who: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health for Ethiopia
Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS Educational Fund; member of the Strategy, Impact and Investment Committee of the Global Fund board
When: 10:00 ET/15:00 GMT/16:00 CET/18:00 EAT Thursday, January 26, 2012
How: To join the media teleconference, please dial 1.888.409.6709 (toll free) or +1.816.249.4915 (international) and enter conference ID number 46443308. Please RSVP to Blair Hinderliter at [email protected] if you plan on joining the call or if you need assistance in joining the call (i.e., would need to be dialed out to).
International dial-in numbers for your convenience: France: 0800909322; UK: 08000288438; Switzerland: 0800891753
Distributed by the African Press Organization for RESULTS Educational Fund.
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RESULTS Educational Fund
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