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Dec 6, 2011, 4:42:06 AM12/6/11

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Care/i,

vi inoltro una richiesta della società civile internazionale di adesione a una call to action per sostenere il Fondo Globale per la Lotta contro l’AIDS, la Tubercolosi e la Malaria: a causa della mancanza di risorse finanziarie, da qui al 2014 non partiranno nuovi programmi di lotta contro le tre pandemie del Fondo e a quelli già in essere verranno garantiti soltanto i servizi essenziali. Fra le altre cose, si chiede ai donatori di mantenere i propri impegni nei confronti del GFATM e quindi il Governo italiano è chiamato in causa. L’Osservatorio ha aderito, se volete farlo anche voi, inviate la vostra adesione a j...@icssupport.org riportando il nome della vostra organizzazione, così come volete che appaia sull’appello e specificando il vostro Paese di appartenenza.

Un caro saluto

Stefania Burbo

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Dear all,

To all who have signed on already, thanks very much for your support, and we will set up another call next week to discuss next steps. You can find the Call to Action and all sign-ons (about 90 so far) at http://icssupport.org/home/call-to-action – please also put up the Call on your own websites (as many already did), and share the Call with your own networks.

For those who have not signed on yet – the Call is still open for endorsement, please send an email to j...@icssupport.org to support it. We need as many organizations/groups to support it as possible, also from the TB and malaria community.

CALL TO ACTION

The cancellation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria of all new programming until 2014 is unacceptable. This decision will cost lives and cripple international efforts to deliver on health-related goals, breaking promises made to some of the world’s most vulnerable people, and punishing the Global Fund's success of the last ten years.

People living with HIV and their supporters, as well as communities affected by TB or malaria, are extremely concerned about the damage under-funding of the Global Fund is causing. We therefore demandthat:

[1] See “Resource Scenarios 2011-2013”, p 15. Scenario 2 estimates the cost of a new Round in 2011 to be US$2.7 billion. An estimated US$0.6 billion is available in uncommitted assets for continuation of essential programs, which would be assumed to be included in funding requests through new proposals. US$1.1 billion of the funding required could be raised if all 2010 donor pledges to the Global Fund were met.

[2] Including the UN health MDGs (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) and the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (http://www.un.org/en/ga/aidsmeeting2011/)

[3] The US contribution partially falls outside the replenishment and is under threat by Congress; Belgium, Denmark, EC and the Netherlands have not contributed their 2010 pledges and Denmark has since announced a pledge reduction; Spain, Italy, and Ireland did not pledge and have outstanding payments from previous years. For 2010 pledges, see http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/mediacenter/pressreleases/Donors_commit_US$11_7_billion_to_the_Global_Fund_for_next_three_years/ for pledges and http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/core/financial/Core_PledgesContributions_List_en/