The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria began its biggest ever financing drive here on Wednesday in a bid to raise eight billion dollars (5.6 billion euros) to combat the three killer diseases.
Germany kicked off the donor conference in Berlin by pledging 600 million euros to the cash-strapped fund over the next three years to fight the diseases which claim up to six million lives a year.
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