Millennium Foundation - Innovative finance for health

28/01/2010

Seventh plenary session of the Leading Group, Santiago, January 28-29

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Seventh plenary session of the Leading Group, Santiago - January 28-29

The Seventh plenary meeting is scheduled to take place on 28 and 29 January in Santiago, Chile, under the Chilean Presidency of the Leading Group. It will provide the opportunity to share what the Leading Group on Innovative Finance for Development has accomplished and to make further progress.

A global social response, by President Bachelet

The world is facing an extraordinarily challenging moment, marked by the emergence of a series of different crises that, together, will require the international community’s maximum attention and efforts. Following the 2007 food crisis, in 2008 we faced the most serious global financial and economic crisis since 1929. Both coincided with the growing realization that mankind must deal with another deeper and larger crisis; climate change.

read more on the Leading Group's website:  http://www.leadinggroup.org/article543.html

 
Number of treatments
delivered by UNITAID
for these 3 diseases *
Hiv/Aids
479,640
Malaria
10,308,650
Tuberculosis
970,168
 
 

* Operations presentation, UNITAID Executive Board, 9th Session, 24-25 November 2008, Geneva