Quote of the day_1 December 2011

The Global Fund…and rich countries that have either withheld their funding, not honoured their pledges and decided not to put money into the Fund have condemned many of us to death. We are now on death row…are we just going to sit quietly waiting for an agonising and painful death – Martha Tholanah, Zimbabwe, commenting this week on the announcement by the Global Fund that it will stop making new grants until at least 2014.