Global Fund officials estimate that their programs have saved more than five million lives. Stefan Emblad says these efforts will continue.
STEFAN EMBLAD: "It's important to know that we'll not be cutting funding to any of our existing programs and those programs will continue over the next few years to put more people on treatment, to have more prevention efforts, more care efforts as well. But they won't be at the same rapid pace that we've seen in the last two years."
Mr. Emblad says some of the Millennium Development Goals are still reachable with this new level of funding.
STEFAN EMBLAD: "We could eliminate malaria as a public health threat in malaria-endemic countries. We could also eliminate the transmission of HIV from pregnant mothers to their unborn babies. The countries themselves determine where they want to put the focus. If these two interventions are ones that they see as a priority, they can still be achieved by twenty fifteen."
More than forty donor countries, organizations and businesses attended last week's conference in New York.
The United States promised to give four billion dollars over the next three years, the largest donor pledge ever. The United States was the first donor to the fund and remains the largest. France is second, followed by Japan, Britain and Canada among the top five.
And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Simms. I'm Mario Ritter.
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