Each of us probably overlooks tens of thousands of important news stories every year, but the biggest one that people missed this year happened on Oct.10 in a conference hall in Lyon, France, where a gathering of government officials, business leaders and philanthropists pledged US$14 billion to an organization called the Global Fund. Not many people know what the Global Fund is until they hear its full name: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Now, the fund has US$14 billion in new funding to continue this work. The replenishment is vitally important news, first and foremost because of the sheer number of lives it will help to save. The US$14 billion, the fund says, is expected be enough to cut the three diseases’ death rates by almost 50 percent again by 2023.

Source: Taipei Times November 27, 2019 15:56 UTC