AIDS-AWARENESS GROUP "ACT-UP" MEMBERS INTERRUPT FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC IN PARIS, 2003-07-16 (photo)

AIDS-awareness group "Act Up" members, who interrupted French President Jacques Chirac's speech, are evacuated by plain clothes policemen during the closing ceremony of the second IAS conference on HIV pathogenesis and treatments in Paris, July 16, 2003. The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has committed $1.5 billion to programmes in 92 countries in the last 18 months, faces a lack of money for schemes waiting to be funded at its next board meeting in October. French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had urged other leaders to promise up to $1 billion at the Paris talks after the U.S. authorised that amount. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/Pool PW/