The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria have received a shortfall in donations from international donors which they say will badly affect efforts to fight the diseases.
The worldwide funding body issues grants to a variety of projects intended to fight some of the most deadly diseases around the world. They had asked for funding of £20 billion from international donors to continue to fund the existing projects and to enable them to issue grants for new ones.
The minimum funding that they needed to maintain the existing programmes until 2014 was £13 billion. However, they have only received £11.5 billion.
They have indicated that the shortfall in funding will mean that they cannot make any new grants and that some of the existing projects are now under threat. They also indicate that now only essential programmes in low or middle-income countries will receive the funds that they need to continue their projects until 2014.
Charities and member organisations of the HIV/Aids Alliance have raised concerns over the lack of funding. They have suggested that a number of projects to help fight the HIV problems in South Sudan and parts of China could be affected by the lack of funds.
Other countries such as Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa have already been refused funding for HIV projects and are now unlikely to gain the funding that they need.
Charities are calling for governments to help to make up the shortfall in funds.
