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...initiative is the brainchild of Philippe Douste-Blazy, a former French Foreign Ninister who is now a U.N. Under Secretary charged with finding innovative ways to finance projects. He runs an agency called UNITAID that is attached to the World Health Organization and already channels funds to fight disease in poor countries. UNITAID was founded in 2006. Its $400 million annual budget is funded by Britain, France, Norway, Brazil and Chile. Douste-Blazy is now trying to turbo-charge those efforts by bringing in private donations. He's set up a foundation linked to UNITAID that will collect the voluntary...
...world financial crisis has made such change a necessity, says Bjorn Skogno, a senior official in the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, who is a board member of the Millennium Foundation, the entity set up by UNITAID to collect and distribute the private donations. Overseas development aid "is likely to go down because of the crisis, so there's a need to be innovative to find new sources of funds," Skogno says...
...region. In addition, the test can detect only MDR TB, not the emerging XDR strains. But both WHO and the Global Fund for H.I.V., TB and Malaria are betting that investing in such facilities will boost these nations' ability to combat not just TB but other infectious diseases too. UNITAID, the international drug-purchasing organization, has pledged $26.1 million to the effort, while the Global Fund promises to entertain grant proposals from countries eager to build such labs. "We don't have the luxury of having a simple saliva test that tells you in one minute if you have...
...Before these new medications get into the mouths of the babes who need them, however, they need to become part of the national formularies of developing countries. The Clinton Foundation will receive $35 million from the European international drug-buying facility UNITAID to purchase the lower-priced drugs from manufacturers in the next year, and two of the largest drug purchasers for the developing world - the U.S.'s PEPFAR program and the Global Fund - will follow suit. And merely funneling drugs to the youngest patients won't stem the growing tide of children infected with HIV - the most common source...