International donors pledge $14 bln to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at Lyon summit
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International donors pledge $14 bln to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at Lyon summit
- Title: International donors pledge $14 bln to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at Lyon summit
- Date: 10th October 2019
- Summary: HOMA BAY, KENYA (RECENT - SEPTEMBER 13, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PARENTS HOLDING BABIES IN MALARIA VACCINATION CENTRE CHILD BEING VACCINATED PARENTS WITH BABIES LYON, FRANCE (OCTOBER 10, 2019) (REUTERS) MACRON AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL FUND, PETER SANDS, AT PODIUMS FOR NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL FUND, PETER SANDS, SAYING: "Having set a target of raising at least 14 billion US dollars for the sixth replenishment, we have today secured pledges and commitments for 14.02 billion dollars. So we are absolutely thrilled by this." (Applause) MACRON AND SANDS AT PODIUMS (SOUNDBITE) (English) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL FUND, PETER SANDS, SAYING: "We are targeting to save 16 million lives. We are targeting to halve by 2023 the annual death toll from these three epidemics and we are targeting to avert some 234 million infections so as to reduce the infection rates and get us back on track to achieving the SDG3 goal of ending the epidemics by 2030." SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS ON STAGE DURING BONO'S SPEECH (SOUNDBITE) (English) U2 SINGER, BONO, SAYING: "Where you live should not decide whether you live. Can we agree on that in the conference today? Where you live cannot decide whether you live, do we agree on that in the conference? Yes." SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS ON STAGE DURING BONO'S SPEECH (SOUNDBITE) (English) U2 SINGER, BONO, SAYING: "We are putting down a marker for the cynics and the doubters, for the new populists, the new nativists, and the old entitled thugs. They - you, you - you peddle despair, we offer some hope. You peddle division - we offer some unity." MACRON SHAKING HANDS WITH PRESIDENT OF CAMEROON, PAUL BIYA MACRON AND BIYA MACRON BIYA FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER, JEAN-YVES LE DRIAN, SITTING WITH MACRON AND BIYA, MACRON AND BIYA SHAKING HANDS MACRON WALKING WITH PRESIDENT OF NIGER, MAHAMADOU ISSOUFOU MACRON AND ISSOUFOU SHAKING HANDS MACRON WALKING MACRON ON STAGE WITH SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS MACRON HUGGING YOUNG BOY WEARING HIV/AIDS AWARENESS RIBBON AUDIENCE DURING MACRON AND SANDS NEWS CONFERENCE, INCLUDING FRENCH HEALTH MINISTER, AGNES BUZYN (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, SAYING: "There is one G7 country which is a bit behind the others, it's Japan, which only increased by 5 per cent. And so when I say I in the next week we can do more, I think we can convince the Japanese to join the club. It's the only G7 country which didn't make a two-figure increase to its contribution." MACRON AND SANDS AT PODIUMS (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, SAYING: "And then we motivated certain countries more than in the past, in particular the Gulf states. That was the big job of this morning. I think we can go even further. We have Qatar who has put in 50 million, we have the United Arab Emirates who put in 50 million, Saudi Arabia put in 30 (million), they could perhaps do more." MACRON SHAKING HANDS WITH PRESIDENT OF MADAGASCAR, ANDRY RAJOELINA MACRON AND RAJOELINA MACRON GREETING PRESIDENT OF BURKINA FASO, ROCH MARC CHRISTIAN KABORE MACRON AND KABORE AUDIENCE IN HALL FOR SUMMIT SPEECHES (SOUNDBITE) (English) MICROSOFT FOUNDER, BILL GATES, SAYING: "We found that if we had a monthly pill, that we could get very high compliance. And in fact a pill like that is in the pipeline. They'll be able to either take it at home, or go and get it at the local clinic." MACRON, GATES, BONO AND SANDS APPLAUDING SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS ON STAGE
- Embargoed: 24th October 2019 16:28
- Keywords: malaria world health TB vaccines Macron Bill Gates Bono tuberculosis PrEP AIDS Peter Sands
- Location: LYON, FRANCE / JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA / OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO / HOMA BAY, KENYA
- City: LYON, FRANCE / JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA / OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO / HOMA BAY, KENYA
- Country: France
- Topics: Overseas Development Aid,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA003B0INFIF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CAN BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH 4159-FRANCE-AIDS/SUMMIT-MACRON, WHICH HAS SOUNDBITES OF MACRON URGING COUNTRIES AND PRIVATE SECTOR TO DONATE
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International donors pledged $14 billion to fight diseases including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on Thursday (October 10) at a Global Fund summit in the French city of Lyon.
"We have today secured pledges for 14.02 billion dollars. So we are absolutely thrilled by this," Global Fund executive director Peter Sands told the event.
Speaking at the end of the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron named Japan as lagging behind other G7 nations and Saudi Arabia for being behind other Gulf States in their contributions.
Personalities at the event included Microsoft founder Bill Gates and U2 pop star Bono.
Gates told the summit about new developments in preventing the spread of HIV, with a monthly antiretroviral pill in development.
Bono criticised populism in a speech to participants, saying: "You peddle despair, we offer some hope. You peddle division - we offer some unity."
The Global Fund Replenishment Conference has set a goal of preventing 234 million infections related to the three diseases by 2023.
According to the World Health Organization, there were 37.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS across the globe in 2018.
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