Mr Hamburger or the journalist appears to have forgotten a donation from that group of islands lying off the shore of Europe known as the UK.

This is the first of three instalments about the official announcements of new funding for HIV and two other diseases. Resistance to the 3D Fund has all but disappeared. Most of the criticism now focuses on implementation challenges. But not everyone in the government is happy with the transparency, accountability, and monitoring with which the 3D Fund is operating so far. Read the final two articles.