BANGKOK (Reuters) - Foreign donors alarmed at the spread of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Myanmar are working on a new $100 million fund to replace aid pulled last year over restrictions imposed by the military junta.
The "3-Diseases Fund" aims to plug the gap left by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria which quit the former Burma last August, citing curbs on their activities which have since forced other aid groups to leave.
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