Advocacy groups working to end extreme poverty say they hope Canada will use an upcoming international AIDS conference in Montreal to commit new funding for a global organization that fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
But the groups say they're worried Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will fall short.
Legault said the Global Fund, which provides financing to health departments and NGOs fighting the three diseases, has helped save an estimated 44 million lives over the past 20 years.Chris Dendys, executive director of Results Canada, an Ottawa-based advocacy organization that works to end extreme poverty, said her group is also "pushing for this $1.2-billion contribution, which is what the Global Fund says is needed -- the bare minimum needed.
The pandemic, Legault said, disrupted health-care services, including those aimed at fighting AIDS, TB and malaria.
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