{"id":14953,"date":"2013-12-04T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T07:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/12\/20131204_global_fund-2\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T07:12:28","slug":"20131204_global_fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/12\/20131204_global_fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy donates 100 million euros to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>After three years, Italy has re-joined the ranks of donor countries to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The announcement was made by Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli in Washington, where a fund \u201cReplenishment Conference\u201d is being held. The conference aims to raise 15 billion dollars for the next 3 years. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>100 million euros from Italy for the next 3 years<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Italy\u2019s contribution, explained Pistelli, will amount to 100 million euros for the next 3 years. \u201cThis is a strong and highly symbolic signal and marks a profound break with the recent past\u201d, declared Pistelli. \u201cA signal that was welcomed by Bill Gates, with whom I had a long discussion in which I reiterated our country\u2019s on-going and constant efforts to help fight these terrible diseases\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Italy the world\u2019s 8th donor country<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Global Fund was set up after the G8 in Genoa in 2001. Notwithstanding our halt to funding over the last three years, Italy remains the world\u2019s 8th donor country. According to the fund\u2019s experts, the target funding of 15 billion dollars would be sufficient to achieve \u201cthe beginning of the end\u201d of the three epidemics.<A name=_GoBack><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three years, Italy has re-joined the ranks of donor countries to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The announcement was made by Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli in Washington, where a fund \u201cReplenishment Conference\u201d is being held. The conference aims to raise 15 billion dollars for the next 3 years. 100 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,29],"class_list":["post-14953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}