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A matter of priorities

July 02, 2009 18:07

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria needs an additional $5 billion to save human lives and to support poor countries. This represents less than one-half of one per cent of what G8 countries have approved over a three-month period, to bail out failing private banks

As demand has soared and successful proposals for funding from the world's poor continue to pour in, donor funding has not kept pace.

Without an infusion of support from countries like Canada, it's clear that several men, women and children will die needlessly.

To those who would argue that Canada has other priorities in the actual economic downturn, I would like to recall that the sole Canadian military budget now totals nearly $20 billion.


Bruno Marquis ,
Gatineau, Quebec




 

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