{"id":23820,"date":"2013-10-01T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=23820"},"modified":"2013-10-01T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:16:01","slug":"france-pledges-1-4-billion-for-global-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/23820","title":{"rendered":"France pledges $1.4 billion for Global Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Global Fund Observer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>France has announced that it will contribute \u20ac1.08 billion ($1.4 billion) to the Global Fund for the Fourth Replenishment period (2014\u20132016).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That works out to about $467 million a year. This approximately the same as the amount France pledged for the Third Replenishment (2011\u20132013).<\/p>\n<p>There had been fears that France would lower its contribution. However, in recent months, France tried to dispel these fears.<\/p>\n<p>France has been the largest European contributor to the Global Fund. Globally, France is second only to the US, which pledged about $4.0 billion for the Third Replenishment.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that up to 5% of France\u2019s pledge will be earmarked for capacity-building activities in Francophone countries aimed at improving the effectiveness and health impact of Global Fund grants. France started this practice in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/>\nGlobal Fund Observe. France Pledges $1.4 Billion for Global Fund\u2019s Fourth Replenishment. GFO Issue 122. (16 July 2013).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidspan.org\/node\/1838#comment_section\">http:\/\/www.aidspan.org\/node\/1838#comment_section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global Fund press statement. Global Fund Welcomes Contribution by France. (July 2013).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalfund.org\/en\/mediacenter\/newsreleases\/2013-07-16_Global_Fund_Welcomes_Contribution_by_France\/\">http:\/\/www.theglobalfund.org\/en\/mediacenter\/newsreleases\/2013-07-16_Global_Fund_Welcomes_Contribution_by_France\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Fund Observer France has announced that it will contribute \u20ac1.08 billion ($1.4 billion) to the Global Fund for the Fourth Replenishment period (2014\u20132016). That works out to about $467 million a year. This approximately the same as the amount &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}