UNITED NATIONS: Donors committed US$11.7 billion on Tuesday to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for the next three years, far below the $17 billion needed to meet U.N. goals to slow and beat the killer diseases.
The contributions to The Global Fund to fight the three pandemics represented a more than 20 percent increase over the $9.7 billion pledged for 2008-2010, which U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed saying the money "is enough to give millions of people living in fear a new lease on life."
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