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Sun, 11/15/2009 - 10:03
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GF grants $ 24 mln to Yemen anti-Tuberculosis program

SANA'A, Nov. 14 (Saba)- The
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has agreed to offer a total of
$24 million
to the national anti-Tuberculosis program of Yemen, a senior Yemeni official said on
Saturday.
After his participation in the GF 20th meeting which held in the Ethiopian capital
Addis Ababa on 9-11 November, Public Health and Population Minister Abdul-Karim
Ras'a
said to Saba that the meeting chose Yemen a sole representative of the Eastern
Mediterranean Region states in the GF.
Ras'a said that the fund agreed to finance projects presented by all member
countries of the GF with $ 2.2 billion.
In addition, the GF will offer $ 443,342,805 to The Eastern Mediterranean Region
states, including Yemen, Pakistan, Djibouti, Iraq and Sudan.
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