The United States will be forced to withhold $120 million from this year's donation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria unless other contributors can come up with twice that amount by the end of September, U.S. AIDS czar Randall Tobias said Wednesday.
By U.S. law, the American share of the fund can total no more than 33% of all contributions. But as of July 31, donations from other countries fell $243 million short of the amount required for a full U.S. grant of $547 million for the period.
Tobias said he would exercise his discretion to wait two months in hopes that the full grant could be made. Otherwise, the money would be used as part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
"We want to comply with the letter of the law but, at the same time, we are also doing everything we can do within the letter of the law to
as much money to the global fund as we can," Tobias said in a telephone news conference.
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