Japan gives 184 million dollars to global fund for AIDS, TB, malaria
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Tokyo, Feb. 29 Kyodo - Japan will provide $184 million of fresh aid to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Friday.
This will bring Tokyo’s total contribution to $850 million since the fund was established in 2002 to combat the three diseases that kill 5 million people each year, according to the Foreign Ministry.
The aid comes ahead of Japan’s hosting the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido in July.
At the summit, global health issues - including the UN Millennium Development Goals of halting the spread of the three diseases - are expected to be among the key issues for discussion.
The fund, created as a result of discussion by leaders at the G-8 summit in Okinawa in 2000, has supported a total of 524 projects in 136 countries.
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