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Contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)

November 2002

  1. On Friday, 29 November, the Government of Japan decided to extend aid of US$69.05 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).
  2. In June 2001, on his visit to the United States of America, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed Japan's intention to provide a total of US$200 million to the GFATM, and US$11 million was provided in March 2002 as part of this figure. The current additional contribution brings the total of Japan's contribution in this calendar year to US$80.05 million.
  3. Other major countries have also announced that they will contribute to the GFATM, including the United States, which has pledged US$500 million (US$250 million already contributed) and Italy, which has pledged US$200 million (US$186 million already contributed), and the current total of contributions pledged, including those from the private sector, has been announced at US$2.14286 billion.
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