Geneva ? Nearly 30 donors to the Global Fund met this week in the Hague, Netherlands, to review global health progress and assess funding needs for the period 2011 to 2013. osted by the government of the Netherlands, this is a preparatory meeting ahead of a pledging conference for the Global Fund at the UN Headquarters on 4 and 5 October, which will be chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The preparatory meeting in the Hague was attended by delegates from 27 countries and the United Nations Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and UNITAID. ?We have made such extraordinary progress that a world without malaria deaths and a world without any babies being born with AIDS is now within our reach by 2015,? says Prof. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund. ?The financing allocated in 2010 will determine whether we can finally reach that promise.? Donors will discuss the results achieved by the Global Fund and projections of the costs for funding its share of the response to the three global pandemics.