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UNICEF Commends Gates Foundation for AIDS Contribution

Statement from Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF

New York, 19 June 2001 -- UNICEF today commended the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for contributing $100 million to the Global AIDS and Health Fund.

UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said: "The importance of this very generous donation goes way beyond its dollar value, large though that is. It is a recognition of the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic that threatens individuals, families, countries and economies -- and the need to build global and broad-based partnerships to address this crisis. It is an acknowledgement that each of us have a stake in the fight against HIV/AIDS. UNICEF welcomes this donation, and hopes that other donors will follow the splendid example of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."

UNICEF is one of the seven principal co-sponsors of UNAIDS.

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