{"id":46680,"date":"2022-09-22T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-contributes-3-3-million-to-global-fund\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:41:51","slug":"rwanda-contributes-3-3-million-to-global-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-contributes-3-3-million-to-global-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda contributes $3.3 million to Global Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting held in New York and chaired by the United States President Joe Biden, was aimed at raising funds for health care efforts in the fight against diseases including AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to collect $18 billion but only $14.25 billion has been collected. Nonetheless, there are countries that have not yet contributed, including Italy and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Rwanda&#8217;s contribution of $3.25 million, the United States of America has pledged to contribute \u2153 of the Global Fund&#8217;s budget.  Initially, the country provided $2 billion out of its $6 billion pledge.<\/p>\n<p>The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, said that his country will contribute $1.6 billion dollars, an addition to the 300 million Euros that his country pledged recently.<\/p>\n<p>Germany committed to giving $3 billion while Canada pledged $1.21 billion. Many countries around the world have pledged to increase their contribution by 30%. These include Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has also announced that it will increase its funding by 30%, pledging 750 million Euros to help the world&#8217;s health sector.<\/p>\n<p>African countries that increased their contribution by 30% include Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The contributions will be allocated to health programs including the fight against AIDS. <\/p>\n<p>Statistics from The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS), show that the number of people infected with AIDS increased by 1.5 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, tuberculosis cases also increased, with 1.5 million deaths in 2020 alone, which is the highest number in more than 10 years. Malaria-related deaths have decreased by 47% between 2002 and 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44302 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fdomib9xoaa55kw-c0f26.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame who attended the 7th Global Fund Replenishment meeting talking to the Chancellor of Germany.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44303 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fdomib_x0aae8wa-b3aeb.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda has increased its contribution to global fund by 30%. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44304 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fdomib8xoaeilcw-bfdf8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has participated in the 7th Global Fund Replenishment meeting during which Rwanda pledged $3,250,000, a 30% increase from the last round.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[3072],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-zaninka-umutesi"],"bylines":[{"id":3072,"name":"Zaninka Umutesi","slug":"zaninka-umutesi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":3072,"name":"Zaninka Umutesi","slug":"zaninka-umutesi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46680"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46680"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}