Strasbourg, 10/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - In adopting a resolution on “HIV/AIDS - Time to deliver” on 6 July, the European Parliament called on the international community to deliver its promises during the Toronto Conference in August, and on the European Commission and Member States to ensure that health spending in developing countries reaches levels commensurate with the political commitments made. MEPs criticised “the Commission's poor track record in development fund spending in the healthcare sector”, stressing, for example, that in 2003 only 5.2% of the EDF was earmarked for health spending , and only 4% on 2002, and deplored the fact that the Commission intended to propose that only 6% of development funds within the new development cooperation instrument be allocated to human and social development, covering not only healthcare, HIV/AIDS, sexual ands reproductive health, but all other aspects of social development, including children, education and gender programmes. Parliament called on the Commission, therefore, to double its budget for healthcare in developing countries within the Development Cooperation Instrument and to aim for at least 50% of all Official Development Assistance to be spent on achieving the Millennium Development Goals. While stressing that the European Commission is one of the main donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, having contributed €522 million between 2002 and 2006, Parliament called on the Commission to increase its contribution to the Fund.