EUROPE/ITALY - Cooperazione Italia contributes 268 million Euro to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria

Wednesday, 19 May 2004

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Rome (Fides Service) - In the past three years Cooperazione Italiana has contributed almost 270 million Euro to the struggle to fight AIDS, particular through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria set up in 2001 during the G8 meeting in the Italian city of Genoa.
The total sum of Italian contributions to the struggle to fight AIDS from 2000 to 2003 was 268 million Euro, including contributions to NGOs (64 million), the Higher Institute for Health Care and other international bodies.
Within the ambit of contributions to the Global Fund, 80% of the contributions, Italy comes second after the United States as a donor country. In its turn the Global Fund, which assigns the money received for projects in developing countries rather being an executive agency, directed 60% of the funds for initiatives to fight AIDS, 23% to fight malaria and 17% to programmes to treat and prevent TB.
Italian contributions go mainly, 81.9%, to programmes in countries in sub-Saharan Africa such as Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Tanzania and smaller sums go to support programmes in Eastern and Mediterranean Europe, Asia and Latin America. (AP) (19/5/2004 Agenzia Fides; Righe:20; Parole:222)