Why does the global fund stop supporting any new programmes?

The global fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria has decided not to fund any new programmes as a result of cuts in its resources from donor nations. The fund says it will continue to support only essential services in existing programmes after a shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars. A spokesman for the fund told the BBC the cuts put the progress in combating disease at risk and threatened the lives of people in the developing world.

In the hot and humid piney woods of the Deep South, you’ll find a small industrial city that has become a hub for trucks that crisscross the nation. But Meridian, Mississippi—population 40,000—was once an important railroad center. It was there, more than 80 years ago, that the man known as the "Father of Country Music"lived and wrote lonesome tunes, including several mournful train songs. As the nation’s first known professional country singer, Jimmie Rodgers recorded hit after hit. They featured his distinctive yodeling sound that inspired cowboy singers such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.