Since that visit commitments have been made to support polio immunisation for an amount of €64.5million, microprojects in the Delta region (€63million), small town water supplies (€15million) and support to institutional capacity building (€10million).

(i)agents used to produce active immunity, such as cholera vaccine, BCG, polio vaccines, smallpox vaccine.

(i) agents used to produce active immunity, such as cholera vaccine, BCG, polio vaccines, smallpox vaccine.

38. Stresses that a global strategy for confronting communicable diseases can succeed only if appropriate and affordable vaccines and medicines are developed for prevention and treatment; considers that such a programme requires commitment to finance the purchase and distribution of these products on a global basis (as for polio vaccine); recommends that a global fund be established to target the three major communicable diseases (FFID - Fund for Infectious Diseases); considers that such an "outcome-driven” fund, under the aegis of the WHO and UNAIDS, supported by the EU, G8, the World Bank, the IMF and open to public and private cont ...[+++]ributions (public private partnership with NGOs included), can complement ongoing support to strengthen national health infrastructures and promote access to medicines and treatment; considers that allocation to a global fund should be additional to existing aid efforts and be framed in the context of health as a global public health good;

Stresses that a global strategy for confronting communicable diseases can succeed only if appropriate and affordable vaccines are developed for prevention. Such an immunisation programme requires commitment to finance purchase and distribution of vaccines on a global basis (as for polio vaccine). This Infectious Disease Fund (IDF) should be supported by the EU, G8, the World Bank, IMF and such agencies;

38. Stresses that a global strategy for confronting communicable diseases can succeed only if appropriate and affordable vaccines and medicaments are developed for prevention and treatment. Such a programme requires commitment to finance purchase and distribution of these products on a global basis (as for polio vaccine). A global fund should be established to target the three major communicable diseases (FFID - Fund for Infectious Diseases). Such an "outcome-driven" fund, under the aegis of the WHO and of UNAIDS, supported by the EU, G8, the World Bank, IMF and open to public and private contributions (public private partnership with NG ...[+++]Os included), can complement ongoing support to strengthen national health infrastructures and promote access to medicines and treatment; allocation to a global fund should be additional to existing aid efforts and be framed in the context of health as a global public health good;