{"id":7845,"date":"2010-02-06T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:25:30","slug":"global-fund-approves-us2-4-billion-in-new-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/7845","title":{"rendered":"Global Fund approves US$2.4 billion in new grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TheGlobalFund.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In its ninth round of funding the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has made an overall approval of grants with a two-year commitment of\u00a0US $2.4 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the second largest\u00a0ever approved by the Global Fund, following a US$2.75 billion round in 2008. The Global Fund has now approved a total funding\u00a0of US$18.4 billion for 144 countries since it was created in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Fund also approved the roll-out of the pilot phase of a facility to reduce prices for effective malaria medicines (AMFm). The Pilot phase will\u00a0take place in nine African countries and Cambodia and be funded through US$216 million in funding from UNITAID, the United Kingdom government and the Bill\u00a0and Melinda Gates Foundation. It aims to provide access for everybody to effective artemisinin combination treatments for malaria and save lives by\u00a0reducing the use of old, ineffective medicines.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Fund Board decided to launch its next round of grants in May 2010. This round of funding will be considered for approval at a Board meeting to\u00a0be held some time between November 2010 and January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GFFATM Press release. Global Fund approves US$2.4 billion in new grants. (12 Nov 2009).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalfund.org\/en\/pressreleases\/?pr=pr_091112\">http:\/\/www.theglobalfund.org\/en\/pressreleases\/?pr=pr_091112<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheGlobalFund.org In its ninth round of funding the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has made an overall approval of grants with a two-year commitment of\u00a0US $2.4 billion. This is the second largest\u00a0ever approved by the Global Fund, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}