Huffington Post: Reason to Celebrate in the New Year: $12 Billion to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria
Deborah Derrick, president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The Global Fund’s replenishment conference in December raised $12 billion, “the largest amount ever committed to fight the three diseases.  … In the years ahead, the Global Fund will deepen its work with donor governments; encourage increased private sector and high-net-worth individual investments, as well as domestic co-financing; and work to ensure treatment, prevention and care continue to reach those most in need. But this current moment is certainly one to celebrate — the beginning of a New Year in which our collective resolution is to control these three diseases once and for all. And, with replenishment efforts already well underway and increasing levels of support for the Global Fund worldwide, this is one resolution that we can hope to keep” (1/13).