Global Fund extends 260 million dollar assistance

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GFATM extends 260 million dollar assistance

New Delhi | June 30, 2004 2:54:56 PM IST

The Board of the Global fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

(GFATM) has approved funding assistance of 260 million dollars to

India over a five-year period.

The various proposals that were submitted by India and approved by

the Board are 165 million dollars to support the project for the

provision of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) to one lakh people living

with HIV/AIDS in India. US 69 million dollars towards the extension

of the Malaria Control Programme and 26 million dollars for the

extension of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme. Initially,

the GFATM will sign a two-year agreement with India, which will be

renewed for another period of three years, subject to satisfactory

performance.

The Board of the GFATM took this decision at its on-going 8th

meeting in Geneva today. Shri J.V.R. Prasada Rao, Secretary

(Health), Government of India, is attending this meeting on behalf

of the Union Health & Family Welfare Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramdoss

as the Board Member representing the South East Asian Region of the

World Health Organization. The Chairman of the Board of the GFATM is

United States Health Secretary Mr. Tommy .

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