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To the Editor:
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria would need an additional $5 billion to save human lives and to support poor countries. This represents less than one-half of one per cent of what G8 countries have approved, over a three-month period, to bail out failing private banks.
As demand has soared and successful proposals for funding from the world's poor continue to pour in, donor funding has not kept pace. Without infusion of support from countries like Canada, it's clear that men, women and children will die needlessly.
To those who would argue that Canada has other priorities in the actual economic downturn, I would like them to recall that the Canadian military budget now totals nearly $20 billion.
Bruno MarquisGatineau, Que.
