LYON, France - International donors are set to pledge $14 billion on Thursday to combating AIDS, said French President Emmanuel Macron.

"In the next three hours, we should get to the $14 billion," he told a gathering in Lyon, adding that France would commit close to $1.5 billion.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten; editing by John Stonestreet) ((sudip.kargupta@thomsonreuters.com; +33 1 49 49 53 84;))