Increase funding or abandon hope of ending malaria, TB and Aids, UK warned

Global Fund urges UK and other donors to pledge billions to get efforts to end diseases by 2030 back on track' after catastrophic impact of Covid

Britain is being urged to pledge billions of dollars to get the fight against malaria, tuberculosis and Aids back on track" after efforts were ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The UK has historically been one of the main donors to the Global Fund, an international financing organisation aimed at ending the three deadly epidemics by 2030. Now it is warning that, unless donors make an unprecedented total funding pledge of $18bn (13.25bn) this year, that goal will be missed.