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"We have often debated these problems in the past, but quite rightly do so again tonight: 36.1 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in this world, tuberculosis is making a tragic comeback, 300 million people suffer the debilitating and painful effects of malaria. If anything needed a visionary, innovative and international response, it is the prevalence of these communicable diseases.
We want to support, in principle, this global fund to fight communicable diseases. We want to see it concentrate on prevention as well as treatment of all three diseases. We want an innovative and workable governance framework. We want a true international partnership so it is not just seen as donor business as usual. We want funding mechanisms that fast-track funds so that we can maintain the political commitment and mobilise further resources.
These are difficult issues and I sympathise with the Commission for the delays that have been forced on it in bringing forward this request for a legal base. But it should reflect also on why the second reading proposals on our own support through the poverty diseases line were cut back from Parliament's demands, and why President Prodi announced EUR 60 million of support from the global health fund from the ACP countries, which it was not his right to do and, as we heard in this Chamber from their President-in-Office they oppose. We must be concerned that this money actually adds to the global efforts and does not simply go into the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies.
The amendments that we have constructively negotiated with the Commission and Council improve this proposal: the recognition that we need additional money, the fact that this is simply a first payment and the request to the Commission both to bring forward a legal base for future contributions and to provide a report so that some of these information issues can be dealt with.
I ask Commissioner Nielson if he can give us a time-scale as to when that might be brought forward during the course of next year so we can deal with it properly in the budget process."@en1
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