Bulgaria can apply for funding extension of six years before the Global Fund for Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The funding would be for of HIV prevention activities from 2009 to 2015, Focus news agency reported.

The funding extension would be possible due to the high results achieved by the National Programme for Prevention of HIV/AIDS.

Bulgaria is the only country in the South-Eastern Europe which received three consecutive A category marks from the Fund over the past two years.

The secretariat of the Fund will examine the documents for the progress of the funding already granted to Bulgaria.

The Fund will take in consideration the effectiveness and sustainability and will decide whether to prolong funding.