Seoul, Nov 22 (IANS) South Korea has pledged to contribute $100 million to the Global Fund for three years, beginning in 2026, reaffirming its commitment to international efforts to combat major infectious diseases, according to the foreign ministry on Saturday.

Kweon Ki-hwan, deputy minister for multilateral global affairs at the ministry, announced the pledge during the Global Fund’s eighth replenishment summit held Friday in Johannesburg, South Africa, reports Yonhap news agency.

The Global Fund, established in 2002, is the world’s largest international public-private partnership dedicated to preventing and eradicating AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Kwon highlighted the Global Fund’s achievements over the past two decades, including saving an estimated 70 million lives from the thre

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