Broken Promises Kill - Fully Fund the Global Fund! (Sub: ENG, RUS, HUN)
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0:03 - 0:06[Chanting] 'Broken promises kill'
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0:06 - 0:10'Broken promises kill' Protest at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna 18 July 2010
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0:10 - 0:13I'm protesting because at the global level right now
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0:13 - 0:16there is a shortage in funding of HIV/AIDS.
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0:16 - 0:21[Chanting] 'Stop the Epidemic'
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0:21 - 0:24If all HIV-infected people could be treated,
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0:24 - 0:28because HIV-infected patients when they are treated
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0:28 - 0:30do not transmit any more,
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0:30 - 0:33we could stop the epidemic in 30 years.
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0:33 - 0:37[Chanting] 'Fund AIDS, no retreat'
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0:37 - 0:40The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
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0:40 - 0:41was established in 2001 to help fight these diseases
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0:41 - 0:43in developing countries around the world.
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0:43 - 0:46In ten years it has committed 19.3 billion Dollars
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0:46 - 0:48to programmes in 144 countries.
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0:48 - 0:50It saved more than 4.9 million lives;
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0:50 - 0:532.5 million people were treated for HIV and AIDS,
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0:53 - 0:566 million people received live-saving drugs for TB,
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0:56 - 0:58and 104 million bed nets for malaria were distributed.
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0:58 - 0:59The Global Fund prevents 3600 deaths every day.
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0:59 - 1:0110 years ago, with the UNGASS Declaration,
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1:01 - 1:03countries all over the world pledged
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1:03 - 1:06to achieve universal access by 2010.
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1:06 - 1:11And here we are in 2010, and support, financial support
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1:11 - 1:15to achieve universal access is completely inadequate.
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1:15 - 1:17Now what we're seeing is that funding
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1:17 - 1:20is not coming in at the rate it needs to be coming in.
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1:20 - 1:23The financial crisis is being used as an excuse
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1:23 - 1:24to cut off AIDS funding.
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1:24 - 1:27The economies will die, everything will die,
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1:27 - 1:31if they do not fullfill their promises.
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1:31 - 1:37Because if they had to lead economies that are sound,
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1:37 - 1:39they must have sound people.
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1:39 - 1:41All Eastern-Europe is actually dependant
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1:41 - 1:45on the Global Fund money, it's the major donor,
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1:45 - 1:47it's the main donor of for example
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1:47 - 1:49harm reduction for injecting drug users.
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1:49 - 1:53If we reduce the funding of the Global Fund,
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1:53 - 2:02we are going to lose 10-15 years of work in the field.
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2:02 - 2:07Several countries, major donors have begun to scale back
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2:07 - 2:08their funding of the Global Fund.
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2:08 - 2:10One of those countries is the United States,
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2:10 - 2:14Obama made bold promises during his campaign
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2:14 - 2:15to increase funding of the Global Fund
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2:15 - 2:18and has not yet kept those promises.
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2:18 - 2:20In fact, here in Austria, where we stand today,
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2:20 - 2:23the Austrian Government while they've given some money
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2:23 - 2:26for this conference that we're participating in
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2:26 - 2:29has not contributed any money to the Global Fund.
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2:29 - 2:34When the financial system was under pressure two years ago,
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2:34 - 2:38in a couple of weeks time all the Western governments
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2:38 - 2:40came together with, I believe,
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2:40 - 2:44the economists estimated at 8 trillion dollars
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2:44 - 2:48to rescue the financial system, which needed to be rescued, OK,
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2:48 - 2:50but that proves that when there is political will,
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2:50 - 2:54when there is political commitment to solve a problem, they can do it.
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2:54 - 2:56It strikes me as we listen to this:
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2:56 - 2:58we want 20 billion dollars for the Global Fund,
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2:58 - 3:02that the BP has taken that out of their bank account
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3:02 - 3:05to support clean up of the Gulf.
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3:05 - 3:07If they can turn around and take 20 billion dollars
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3:07 - 3:10out of their bank account, think in reality
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3:10 - 3:13how easy it is to get that 20 billion dollars
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3:13 - 3:17to give to the Global Fund to actually save people's lives
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3:17 - 3:22all around the globe.
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3:22 - 3:26We see that some countries soon will not be eligible
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3:26 - 3:30to the Global Fund, like Belarus, like Azerbaijan,
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3:30 - 3:32like Kazachstan, some other countries,
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3:32 - 3:35and this is mainly because there's not enough money
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3:35 - 3:37in the Global Fund and donors are pushing:
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3:37 - 3:41'OK, we have not enough money so let's prioritize
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3:41 - 3:44where the sort of biggest problems are.
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3:44 - 3:47And countries that are doing well,
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3:47 - 3:50that are managing to prevent HIV epidemic
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3:50 - 3:52are becoming punished.
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3:52 - 3:54The idea is that the countries are rich enough
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3:54 - 3:58to fund the epidemic themselves, but what's happening
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3:58 - 4:01in our region is that because stigma and discrimination
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4:01 - 4:05are so high and because the epidemic is not prioritized,
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4:05 - 4:09the money isn't going where it needs to go,
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4:09 - 4:13so people in our region with HIV and people in our region
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4:13 - 4:16who are at risk for HIV actually have smaller chances
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4:16 - 4:19of getting the treatment and prevention that they need
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4:19 - 4:21than in countries that are much poorer.
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4:21 - 4:24We, communities of those living with HIV are very much scared
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4:24 - 4:28about those years what are coming after Global Fund leaves Belarus.
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4:28 - 4:33100%, absolutely all medicaments are covered by Global Fund.
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4:33 - 4:37The Government doesn't spend any rubel for medicaments
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4:37 - 4:38for HIV-positive people.
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4:38 - 4:4295% of the activities that are right now financed
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4:42 - 4:44by the Global Fund will terminate at the same moment
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4:44 - 4:47when those grants are finished, when the Global Fund
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4:47 - 4:57stops financing these grants in Serbia.
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4:57 - 4:59The people in need deserve the support and assistance,
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4:59 - 5:03and the Global Fund is there as the best mechanism to assist them,
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5:03 - 5:05to provide them support and to save their lives.
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5:05 - 5:10Any kind of step back has a very high price:
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5:10 - 5:14a price that we can count in human lives.
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5:14 - 5:16We need to shame our governments,
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5:16 - 5:18we need to shame our governments
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5:18 - 5:20for not paying their share.
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5:20 - 5:21We should tell our governments:
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5:21 - 5:23you could do it for the financial system,
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5:23 - 5:25you could do it also to save people.
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5:25 - 5:27In our case we want to make sure that the Global Fund
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5:27 - 5:30is adequatly funded so that we can start
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5:30 - 5:33putting an end to these three killer diseases.
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5:33 - 5:41[Chanting] 'Treat the people, fund the fund!'
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5:41 - 5:44Help keep the Global Fund global!
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5:44 - 5:46Join oone of the actions and sign the petition at
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5:46 - 5:50globalfundreplenishment.org
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5:50 -Subtitles by: Ferenc Bagyinszky and István Gábor Takács
- Title:
- Broken Promises Kill - Fully Fund the Global Fund! (Sub: ENG, RUS, HUN)
- Description:
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HCLU's new film on the Global Fund crisis. Activists from all over the world talk about the funding crisis of the Global Fund: how prevention and treatment services in countries that will not be eligible are at danger and how donor countries are trying to cut back funding. For further information on the Global Fund Third Voluntary Replenishment go to www.globalfundreplenishment.org
- Duration:
- 05:56
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