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Anti-poverty summit raises $16b: UN chief

AFP, United Nations
A UN summit called to rev up the war on global poverty raised a total of roughly 16 billion dollars, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Thursday.
"We have full commitment from many countries in pledges to help the world's poor, around the 16 billion dollars mark," he told reporters at the close of the daylong summit called to review implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He said the exact total from pledges from world leaders, the private sector and civil society still had be tallied, but noted that "that expression of global commitment would be all the more remarkable because it comes against a backdrop of financial uCrisis." >.
: "This is exactly the kjntP&T broad, global coalition we need to reach all of our Millennium Development Goals," Ban said.
The gathering was called to galvanize world support to ensure that eight poverty reduction goals agreed by world leaders in 2000 are met by all countries by 2015. Africa is lagging the rest of the world in meeting the ambitious goals.
The MDGs include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improv-
ing maternal health, combating diseases such as HIV/AIDS, ensuring environmental sustainability and creating global partnerships for development.
Major commitments were announced Thursday in four key areas: malaria control, education, health and food security.
On the malaria front, participants committed around three billions dollars for a programme to save more than 4.2 million lives between 2008 and 2015.
Malaria affects half of the world's population - 3.3 billion people in 109 countries -- and causes nearly one million deaths per year, according to UN officials.
The malaria funding includes 1.1 billion dollars from the World Bank and 1.62 billion over two years from the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis, and
nership of government, private sector and non-governmental organisations.
Billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was also providing 168.7 million dollars to fund a Malaria Vaccine Initiative for research on a new generation of malaria vaccines.
On education. Ban said 4.5 billion dollars' worth of new pledges and commitments were made to get 24 million children into school by 2010, as a milestone
toward universal primary education by 2015.
In the health sector, commitments totalling nearly two billion dollars next year and rising to seven billion by 2015 were made for the MDGs relating to child mortality and maternal health.
Ban said a Global Campaign for Health also aimed to mobilize an extra 30 billion dollars by 2015, including to train over one million health workers, saving 10 million livesby2015.
The UN chief said 1.6 billion dollars was also pledged to boost food security, including a new initiative to help poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and central America gain access to rich markets.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stressed the need to spark a green revoliw Africa as he outlined ke^ goals to ensure implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He urged world leaders and top figures of the private sector and civil society "to invest ten billions in Africa so it can help feed not just Africa, but feed beyond Africa with its exports."
"In the past, feed the world meant that we helped to feed Africa," the British leader said. "In future, if we do things right, we will do best by enabling Africa to feed the world."