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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Foreign aid to fight HIV, TB and malaria dries up
NEW DELHI: India might have to bear the burden of funding expensive treatments like second-line drugs for HIV patients and DOTS plus for those suffering from multi-drug resistant TB.

Global Fund, one of India's biggest financers of its drive against the three killer diseases - AIDS, TB and malaria - has run out of money to pay for new programes for the next two years due to global economic downturn.

India, which has received over $1.7 billion from the Global Fund to run several of its HIV, malaria and TB projects, has no choice but to look at its domestic budget to finance the initiatives.
Read more ; TOI
Posted by Sangeeta Narang at 10:32 PM

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