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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a UN-related organization whose purpose is to finance programs that purport to prevent and treat patients with AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, three major threats to health on a global scale. The Fund itself does not implement such programs; it merely finances them. Tubercular lungs - from pl:Gruźlica - believed to be GFDL (polish speaker could verify) File links The following pages link to this file: Tuberculosis Categories: GFDL images ... Tubercular lungs - from pl:Gruźlica - believed to be GFDL (polish speaker could verify) File links The following pages link to this file: Tuberculosis Categories: GFDL images ... In semantics, the patient is the passive part of a process. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Red Ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV positive and people living with AIDS. The Red Ribbon made its public debut when host Jeremy Irons wore it during the 1991 Tony Awards. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... Jump to: navigation, search Red blood cell infected with Malaria (Italian: bad air; formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which in humans causes about 350-500 million infections and approximately 1. ...

Political leaders originally conceived the Fund at the 2000 G8 Summit, at the urging of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. The first Secretariat was established in January, 2002. The September 2005 conference in London mobilized 3 billion Euro, just over half the pledges at the Gleneagles G8 summit. A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... G8 work session; July 20-22, 2001. ... The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The United States has decided to divert the bulk of its AIDS funding to the President's Emergency Plan for Aids, PEPFAR, in order to more closely control the allocation of funds. The Bush government has been criticized for allocating funding for abstinence-only prevention programs that are not proven to effectively reduce infection rates, and for refusing to purchase cheaper generic drugs that would allow for more treatments than more expensive brand-name drugs. This may be related to the appointment of a former phamaceutical executive to lead the program, Randall Tobias. Jump to: navigation, search Look up bush on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Sources and External links

• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• De Standaard (Dutch-language quality newspaper) 12 september 2005