Access to medicines, Nov. 17 -- Ahead of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria's Eighth Replenishment Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, this week, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is calling for world leaders to meet the Global Fund's $18 billion target.

Failure to meet this goal would risk catastrophic cuts to essential services, threaten the resurgence of HIV, TB, and malaria-the world's top three deadliest infectious diseases-and put the financial burden of health care onto the world's most vulnerable patients.

The high-level fundraising meeting-on funding the program for 2027-2029-will take place on November 21, on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit. In many countries, the Globa...