Pledge

ABSTRACT Canada will host The Global Fund’s fifth replenishment conference in Montreal on 16 September 2016. In making the announcement, Canada also indicated that it would increase its pledge to the Fund by 20%.

ABSTRACT France announced that it will contribute approximately $467 million a year to the Global Fund for the period 2014–2016. This is about the same amount as France pledged for 2011–2013.

ABSTRACT Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of Health for Rwanda, says that many of the world’s largest economies are not fulfilling their financial pledges to the Global Fund.

ABSTRACT Russia has announced a pledge of $270 million through 2010, sufficient to reimburse the cost of all Global Fund projects in Russia to date. This will be, by far, the largest pledge to the Global Fund from a country that also receives grants from the Fund.08

ABSTRACT "The Global Fund is one of the best and kindest things that people have ever done for one another. That is why our foundation [has] announced a $500 million grant to the Global Fund. / Between 2003 and 2005, for each new person who got treatment for HIV, about 10 people became infected. Even during our greatest advance, we are falling behind. / We need to put the power to prevent HIV in the hands of women. A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life."

ABSTRACT Italy has apparently reneged on a pledge that it will give 100 million euros (133 million dollars) to the Global Fund this year. This will be the first time that a country has cancelled a pledge to the Fund.