Canada isn’t doing its part to fight the world’s greatest killers

By Letter to the Editor on July 17, 2019.

The Global Fund is the largest global effort to eliminate the world’s greatest killers – AIDS, TB and Malaria, and they have been incredibly successful, saving tens of millions of lives, and the fund is due for renewal for another three years.

Japan has recently committed to this renewal and so has the UK, both significantly increasing their amount as requested by the Fund. South Korea is posed to do the same. But Canada has been silent.

Canada’s contribution rate of development assistance like the Global Fund is among the least of major developed nations. The Trudeau government’s refusal to commit to the requested increase of 16% in critical funding sends a terrible signal to the world, with an impact far greater than the minor amount we are expected to contribute.

Frani Beckow

Victoria, B.C.

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