AT ‘TIPPING POINT’ IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS, TB AND MALARIA, UN-BACKED FUND SEEKS 15B TO DEFEAT PANDEMICS

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Date: 12 Sep 2013 14:00:01 -0400
Subject: AT 'TIPPING POINT' IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS, TB AND MALARIA,
UN-BACKED FUND SEEKS 15B TO DEFEAT PANDEMICS
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AT 'TIPPING POINT' IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS, TB AND MALARIA, UN-BACKED
FUND SEEKS 15B TO DEFEAT PANDEMICSNew York, Sep 12 2013 2:00PMWith a
$15 billion investment over the next three years, the global community
can make huge strides towards defeating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria – saving both missions of dollars and millions of lives,
according to a new report by the United Nations-backed fund to fight
the pandemics.

The report warns that if global funding for the three infectious
diseases were to flatline, it would not only spark severe humanitarian
consequences but would triple the $15 billion currently needed to
bring the pandemics under control to lifetime treatment costs as high
as $47 billion.

This figure is spotlighted in the report, <i>Cost of Inaction</i>,
released today by the UN-backed Global Fund to rally world leaders to
do more to rein in the threat posed by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria during the 2014-2016 period.

"There are three compelling factors that make this a unique
opportunity to fight and defeat these diseases," said Mark Dybul,
Executive Director of the Global Fund citing experience, new
scientific tools and epidemiological understanding.

"We can make a transformative difference, and if we do not act now,
the costs will be staggering," Mr. Dybul noted, backing the report's
call for full replenishment of the Fund's resources.

The report was launched earlier today in a special conference call
that included Ray Chambers, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy
on Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and For Malaria.

As part of the launch of the report, Joanne Carter, Executive Director
of RESULTS Educational Fund in the US, called attention to why this
4th replenishment of the Global Fund is so critical: "We are at the
tipping point in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria and the
ultimate goal we all share to defeat these three diseases is a very
real possibility."

"Besides the humanitarian and moral case for a fully replenished fund,
this report makes the undeniable value for money and economic
rationale for scale-up, now."

Without the required funding 2.6 million people would be infected with
HIV annually, according to the report.

In addition, three million less people would be treated for TB and one
million unnecessarily killed without treatment.

The report points to the cost of $30 per patient to start TB
treatment, which can rise to 1,000 times the cost for multi-drug
resistant TB in the future.

The report also notes that the consequences for inadequate funding for
malaria would be 196,000 lives lost per year and 430 million instances
of people having malaria at a cost of $20 billion in lost gross
domestic product (GDP).Sep 12 2013 2:00PM
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