亲爱的同仁们：
请签名支持把下面的这封信发送给将于2007年2月14日在意大利罗马召开的七国集团（G7）财政部长会议。这封信是为了敦促七国集团在全球抗击艾滋病、结核病和疟疾基金在2009年到2010年间面临的50亿美元的资金缺口上发挥主导作用，保证新资金的投入。
全球基金是由科菲·安南创建于2001年，根据许多公共卫生专家的观点，这是世界上最具创新性的、最具深远的意义，以公开健康为导向的融资机制。在全球范围内，三分之二用于结核病和疟疾的资金，和四分之一用于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的资金是由它提供的。
5亿美元的缺口并不是一个类似我们正在经历的全球金融危机问题。这资金缺口的存在是因为全球基金和申请国都做了非常好的技术支持和能力建设工作，以至于在2008年有三倍的申请项目被审核通过（ 31亿美元比较于上一轮的11亿美元）。疾病流行的国家对全球基金增加了更多高质量的申请，但捐助国承诺并没有跟上。
如果全球基金的健康项目得不到支持，在这个世界上一些最脆弱的人口将对目前的世界性的经济危机增加一倍或两倍的影响。G7必须承诺向全球基金增加投入。
请参见并签名附上的信，敦促七国集团各国政府履行承诺，以充分资助全球基金的资金，为在世界各地继续拯救千百万人的生命。请在美国东部时间2009年2月12日中午12时之前把签上您组织的名词和国家发送电子邮件给Vanessa Wu at vwu@results.org 。预先感谢您的支持。
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致即将在罗马召开的七国集团财政部长会议的公开信
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我们，作为来自全世界各地的关注全球健康事务的公民社会团体、倡导组织和研究机构，敦促G7的各国政府立即采取行动，以填补全球抗击艾滋病、结核病和疟疾基金所面临的资金缺口。
今年，全球基金是扩大规模最大，接受到的高质量项目书最多的一年，也批准了有史以来最大的一轮资金。
在全球范围内，三分之二用于结核病和疟疾的资金，和四分之一用于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的资金是由它提供的。2009年和2010年，该基金将继续这一巨大工作，并期望获得80亿美元去运作所有经批准的项目。
这一成功符合世界的期望，但捐助者的资金还没有跟上，从目前的捐助国那里还留下了50亿美元的缺口。目前经济危机，给发展中国家以沉重的打击，对艾滋病、结核病和疟疾进行投入对于该这些国家良性发展是必不可少。该疾病已经对发展中国家产生了庞大的的影响。世界上那些最贫穷的国家由于结核病的肆虐造成的生产力的下降，每年已经失去了160美元的收入。而在2009年，用以对付这一疾病估计需要42亿美元。在非洲国家，由于疟疾对经济产生的影响，估计每年国内生产总值的损失在120亿美元。相比之下，只需要34亿美元来防止这种损失。最后，艾滋病的威胁，对已经造成非洲国家的国内生产总值达到2.6 ％的损失。
我们一定要在这些国家继续投入，尤其一些已经证实获得有效的成功的国家;全球基金提供以结果为导向的物有所值的投入及其透明和负责任的资金机制。
•为200万感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的人提供抗逆转录病毒疗法（抗逆转录病毒药物）
• 为460万人检测和治疗传染性结核病
•提供了7000万经过杀虫剂处理的蚊帐和7400万疟疾治疗药物
我们提醒全球各国领导人，全球基金是根据需求驱动的。在全球基金理事会决定，如果有更多的需求导致更多更好的建议，提供更多资金资源将是必须的（ GF/B15/DP16 ）。所有的G7国家都派代表参加全球基金理事会，并已原则上同意"给全球基金动员必要的资源以满足日益增加的优质的项目。"2010年中期是被设置为实现千年发展目标时刻，为了这一个重要的时刻，需要去更快的进步和加强努力，以确保完全履行对世界各国人民所作出的承诺。
在发展中国国家，成功的以专业知识和技术运行的项目将提供拯救的生命。现在是G7领导人提升他们的承诺以满足并确保全球艾滋病、结核病和疟疾基金继续拯救数百万人的生命。
我们敦促G7财长和他们的代表在罗马会议期间，承担起对全球基金充分融资的义务，并带来新的承诺对于将于4月份在西班牙举行的全球基金扩大会议。
签名，
Health GAP (Global Access Project), USA
RESULTS Canada, Canada
RESULTS Educational Fund, USA
International Civil Society Support, Netherlands
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Take action: civil society sign on letter to close the Global Fund funding gap
Dear colleagues,
Pasted below is a letter to the Finance Ministers of the G7 who are meeting in Rome, Italy on February 14, 2009. The letter urges G7 nations to take a leading role by pledging new money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria which is facing a $5 billion dollar gap in funding for 2009 and 2010.
Created in 2001 by Kofi Annan, the Global Fund, according to many public health experts, is the most innovative, far-reaching, results- driven health financing mechanism in the world. Globally, it provides two-thirds of the external financing for TB and malaria, and a quarter of the financing for HIV/AIDS.
The 5 billion dollar gap is not a crisis akin to the global financial problems we are currently experiencing. The gap actually exists because the Global Fund and applicant countries have done such a good job of increasing technical expertise and capacity such that triple the number of proposals passed the technical review in 2008 ($3.1 billion compared to $1.1 billion in the previous round). Endemic countries have stepped up to the plate in submitting strong, technically sound proposals, but donor country pledges have not kept pace.
If not supported by Global Fund health programs, some of the most vulnerable populations in the world will feel double or triple the impact of this international economic crisis. G7 countries must be encouraged to increase commitments to the Global Fund.
Please sign the attached letter and urge G7 governments to keep their promises to a fully funded Global Fund that will continue to save millions of lives around the world. Please email Vanessa Wu at vwu@results.org with the name of your organization and country no later than Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 12 pm Eastern Standard Time. Thank you in advance for your support.
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Open Letter to the G7 Ministers of Finance gathered in Rome:
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We write as global health civil society groups, advocates, and researchers from around the world to urge the governments of the G7 to move immediately to fill the funding gap faced by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
This year, the Global Fund is scaling up with bigger and higher quality proposals and just approved the largest funding round ever.
The Global Fund provides a quarter of all international financing for AIDS globally, two-thirds for tuberculosis, and three-quarters for malaria. In 2009 and 2010, the Fund will continue this huge success and expects that $8 billion will be needed to fully fund all approved programs.
This success meets the world"s hopes—but donor funding has not yet caught up, leaving a $5 billion gap in pledges from donors. In this time of economic crisis, developing countries are hit hard - and investments in AIDS, TB, and malaria are essential to the well-being of nations. The diseases already have a huge impact on developing countries. Loss of productivity due to tuberculosis drains $16 billion from the annual incomes of the world"s poorest communities, while resource needs to fight the disease are estimated to be $4.2 billion in 2009. The economic impacts of malaria are estimated to cost African countries $12 billion per year in lost GDP; compare that to $3.4 billion needed to prevent such losses. Finally, AIDS threatens to reduce GDP in African countries by up to 2.6%.
We must keep investing in these countries and particularly in initiatives that get proven returns; the Global Fund provides value for money invested with its results-driven programming and its transparent and accountable funding structures.
Since its inception in 2001, the Global Fund estimates that it has been responsible for:
• Providing anti-retroviral treatments (ARVs) for 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS
• Detecting and treating 4.6 million cases of infectious TB
• Distributing 70 million insecticide-treated bed nets and 74 million malaria drug treatments
We remind global leaders that the Global Fund has always been demand driven. The Board of the Global Fund determined that if more demand led to more, better proposals deserving of funding, resource mobilization would be needed (GF/B15/DP16). All G7 countries are represented on the Board of the Global Fund and have agreed in principle to "mobilize the resources necessary to meet increased demand expressed in the submission of quality proposals to the Global Fund." 2010 is the halfway point to the date set to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and is thus an important time to mark progress and increase efforts to make sure that the promises made to the people of the world are kept.
The know-how and ability to run successful programs that will save lives has been ramped up in developing countries. It is now time for leaders of the G7 to ramp up their commitments to meet that demand and to ensure that the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has the resources to continue saving millions of lives.
We urge the G7 Finance Ministers and their representatives in Rome to commit to fully funding the Global Fund and to bring new pledges to the table at April"s Global Fund replenishment meeting in Spain.
Signed,
Health GAP (Global Access Project), USA
RESULTS Canada, Canada
RESULTS Educational Fund, USA
International Civil Society Support, Netherlands
