AHF Blasts Global Fund for Lowering Fundraising Targets to Combat Epidemics
Business Wire, Los Angeles - "AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) the World’s largest AIDS organization calls on Global Fund to intensify efforts to increase contributions from donors. AHF today denounced the $13 billion fundraising goal recently announced by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) for the Fifth Replenishment round spanning 2017-2019 as lacking in ambition and low in expectations.
“The Global Fund is intentionally setting the bar low right out of the gate, in expectation of another funding shortfall before the fundraising has even begun, instead of taking charge and assertively soliciting existing donors for more money and new contributions from the holdouts,” said Loretta Wong, AHF Senior Director of Global Advocacy and Policy. “There’s no place for such a dire sense of defeatism at a time when, by the Global Fund’s own admission, the need for new money will peak by 2020. Now is the time for the Global Fund to step up and refuse to sit back and accept whatever is handed down. Millions of lives are at stake!”