5 Oct 2010

UN / GLOBAL FUND PRESSER

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces that (USD) $11.5 billion was replenished for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for the years 2011-13. Ban said this was enough to give “millions of people living in fear a new lease on life." UNTV/ UNAIDS/ UNICEF

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STORY: UN / GLOBAL FUND PRESSER
SOURCE: UNTV/ UNICEF/ UNAIDS
TRT: 2.22
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 5 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1.	Wide shot, exterior UN building

5 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2.	Wide shot, dais
3.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"Today we raised more than 11.5 billion dollars for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This is more than we did last time, at the last replenishment conference, and it is enough to give millions of people living in fear a new lease on life."
4.	Med shot, reporters
5.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"At a time when so many Governments are tightening their belts, these commitments send a powerful message. It shows that many world leaders want to do the right thing beyond their borders, too. It shows they understand the importance of health for all people. But let us recognize something else.  A lot of causes deserve funding and support. The Global Fund is mobilizing money because it works. Since 2002, programmes supported by the Fund have saved 5.7 million lives."
6.	Med shot, reporters
7.	SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria:
"I wouldn't wish that anyone interprets today's results as seeming to say that we would again be in a position where we would have to cut back on programmes. Programmes will continue, and programmes will expand. What I am saying is that programmes will not be in a position to expand as fast as we would have hoped."
8.	Med shot, reporters
9.	Zoom out, dais

FILE – UNAIDS - 7-9 JUNE, 2010 KIBERA, KENYA

10.	Various shots, HIV taking his medicine
11.	Various shots, HIV clinic

FILE – UNICEF - 9 SEPTEMBER 2009, KISANGANI, DR CONGO

12.	Med shot, mother and child in doctor's office
13.	Close up, sick child
14.	Med shot, nurse taking child's blood
15.	Close up, blood being dropped on small glass slab
16.	Med shot, malaria results
17.	Close up malaria results

STORYLINE:

Donor countries, private foundations, corporations and individuals meeting at the United Nations have pledged over $11.5 billion in new funding over the next three years for the global partnership to fight three killer diseases – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who chaired the two-day replenishment meeting for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, said that this figure will "enough to give millions of people living in fear a new lease on life."

At a news conference at UN Headquarters after the meeting concluded, he said that "at a time when so many Governments are tightening their belts, these commitments send a powerful message" and noted that although "a lot of causes deserve funding and support", the Global Fund is mobilizing money "because it works".

Over the past eight years, programmes supported by the Global Fund have saved an estimated 5.7 million lives, provided AIDS treatment for 2.8 million people and TB treatment for 7 million people, and distributed 122 million bed nets to prevent malaria.

While welcoming the pledges made, the Executive Director of the Fund, Michel Kazatchkine, noted that they are not enough to meet expected demand. They are also not enough to meet the MDG targets by their deadline.

He nevertheless told reporters that "programmes will continue, and programmes will expand", but not "as fast as we would have hoped."

The Global Fund was created in 2002 to scale up resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need.

To date, it has committed $19.3 billion in 144 countries to support large-scale prevention, treatment and care programmes against the three diseases.

The commitments announced today come two weeks after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit in New York in which UN Member States reaffirmed their commitment to ambitious targets to eradicate disease and poverty by 2015.