"Pressure is mounting on Keir Starmer not to cut the UK's contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria after polling found 62% of Britons believe the government should maintain or increase its support. The prime minister must decide this year whether to maintain the UK contribution at 1bn or implement a cut in line with recent reductions to the aid budget. A cut of 20% has been rumoured."
"The new polling was conducted by More in Common for the One Campaign, which said that if the UK matched the 1bn contribution to the fund made by Rishi Sunak three years ago, 1.7 million lives would be saved over the next three years. There are few aid institutions that are seen as so effective as the Global Fund. Since its formation in 2002, the its vaccines-based strategies have saved 70 million lives."
Keir Starmer faces growing pressure not to reduce the UK's 1bn contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria after polling found 62% of Britons want maintained or increased support. A possible 20% cut is rumoured amid wider aid budget reductions, while the UK co-chairs the fund's replenishment summit on 21 November alongside the G20 in South Africa. The foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, faces Treasury pressure following a 40% reduction to the ODA budget. Germany pledged 1bn at the World Health Summit, and the Global Fund seeks $18bn at the November replenishment to continue vaccine-based programmes that have saved millions of lives.
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