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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9003

3 August 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health/development
EUR 58 million more in World Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

Brussels, 02/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the European Commission announced its decision to pay a further EUR 58 million into the World Fund to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries in order to reactivate measures for prevention, treatment and care and to accelerate the response that is urgently needed to counter these three diseases whose root source is poverty. This will bring to EUR 432.5 million the Commission's total contribution to the Fund since 2002,...