AIDS is not over. World leaders who rushed to plow money and effort into bailing out the financial institutions that caused the global economic crisis cannot justify shortchanging a crisis that kills over 5,000 people each day.
AIDS FUNDING CUTBACKS
Writing Cheques That Bounce
G8 and the Global Fund
Promised: $10 billion a year
Delivered: $3 billion a year
2001: Created with the full support of the G8 club of rich nations, the Global Fund was intended to be a "war chest" worth $10 billion a year.
2008: Paltry donations followed the bold promises and by 2008, donors scraped together only $3 billion a year.1 In 2009, ambitious and sound proposals from developing countries were met with "efficiency" or budget cuts of 10-25%.
2011-2013: In March 2010, the Global Fund estimated that it would need $20 billion over the next three years if it is to expand its funding and help meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Donors are using the global economic crisis as an excuse to continue short-changing the fund. Some warn that raising even $13 billion (the lowest scenario, which would mean a dramatic slow down in pace of delivery) is a "huge stretch."
President Obama and PEPFAR
Promised: $48 billion over 5 years
Delivered: Flatlined funding trajectory
2007: Barack Obama pledges $50 billion over five years for PEPFAR during his campaign.2
2008: U.S. Congress commits to $48 billion over five years in bipartisan legislation endorsed by candidates Obama, McCain and Clinton.
2010: The global economic crisis is being used as an excuse to flatline PEPFAR funds compared to much higher year-on-year increases in previous years, especially from
2006-2009. The effects are already visible with new patients being turned away from treatment in PEPFAR-funded programs in A
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