Japan today pledged a record $560m to help fight Aids and other diseases in the developing world as it prepares to host a major African aid summit next week.
The money will be channeled through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria over several years from 2009, the prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, said.
The Geneva-based fund welcomed the announcement, which came soon after Japan promised to double aid to Africa over the next five years to ¥200bn (£975m).
Its executive director, Michel Kazatchkine, said today's pledge "confirms Japan's strong commitment to development and reducing poverty.
The pledge, Japan's single biggest donation so far, takes its contribution to the fund to $1.5bn since its launch in 2002.
The $10bn fund says it has so far prevented more than 2 million deaths from the three diseases which kill an estimated 6 million people a year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
The money will be channeled through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria over several years from 2009, the prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, said.
The Geneva-based fund welcomed the announcement, which came soon after Japan promised to double aid to Africa over the next five years to ¥200bn (£975m).
Its executive director, Michel Kazatchkine, said today's pledge "confirms Japan's strong commitment to development and reducing poverty.
The pledge, Japan's single biggest donation so far, takes its contribution to the fund to $1.5bn since its launch in 2002.
The $10bn fund says it has so far prevented more than 2 million deaths from the three diseases which kill an estimated 6 million people a year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
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