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		</div><p>Heads of state, chief executives and global health leaders have gathered in France to try to raise at least $14bn to finance the fight against Aids, tuberculosis and malaria over the next three years.</p>
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<p>French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting the conference in the city of Lyon, wants the event to raise a larger amount than the $12.2bn brought in at the last conference in 2016.</p>
<p>A dozen heads of state and government, mostly from African countries, are attending the two-day conference of the Global Fund.</p>
<p>In his opening speech, Mr Macron urged leaders to accelerate their donations.</p>
<p>“If we meet our commitments in the next three years, 16 million lives can be saved,” he said.</p>
<p>“We must reach 14 million dollars in the next three hours.”</p>
<p>He said France has raised its pledge by 15% to €1.24bn.</p>
<p>The US Congress has approved a commitment to give a total of $4.7bn over three years, while Britain has pledged £1.4bn.</p>
<p>The donations from governments, philanthropic donors and the private sector will be used to finance health programmes in more than 100 countries.</p>
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<p>Major recipients of the fund will be Nigeria, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>The Global Fund said the money would help avert 234 million infections and try to get back on track to end HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics by 2030.</p>
<p>The organisation said the programmes it has supported since its creation in 2002 have saved 32 million lives.</p>
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