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Global Fund disease czar warns of limits to shifting foreign aid to private capital
Canada’s aid cut to the Global Fund reduces support for tuberculosis eradication in Nunavut, risking service gaps for vulnerable populations, with a 17% funding drop announced by Ottawa.
- Peter Sands, head of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, says focusing on private capital for aid will have limited impact on the world's most vulnerable people.
- Sands says Canada is making a political choice not to eradicate tuberculosis in areas like Nunavut and emphasizes that tuberculosis is curable and preventable.
- Funding reductions are causing significant gaps in key health services coverage in several countries, according to Sands.
- Sands states that political will is essential to eliminate tuberculosis, which is curable and preventable.
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Global Fund disease czar warns of limits to shifting foreign aid to private capital
OTTAWA - The head of the world's major funding mechanism for tackling infectious diseases says the Carney government's focus on leveraging private capital for aid will have only a limited
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