June 2011
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Zuma calls on African funds for development -... →
Africa is moving in the right direction with a focus on economic growth, but needs funds to maintain the momentum, Zuma told delegates in Equatorial Guinea ahead of an African Union summit opening Thursday.
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Niger sees $23 mln from US as aid program restarts... →
Niger must meet criteria set by MCC on corruption, human rights, the economy, and education before becoming eligible for the grant.
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allAfrica.com: Africa: Cut Aid to Regimes... →
Mr Leventhal said the US provided more than $1 billion in 2009 in anti-corruption and good governance assistance through the US Department of State and Usaid.
He said the US also provided $228 million in 2004-2008 through the Millennium Challenge Corporation, adding that the global fight against corruption remained a central priority for the US, linked to the global country’s shared...
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Clinton Says African Economies Would Fail Without... →
“The women of Africa are the hardest working women in the world,” said Clinton, addressing the 53-nation body in Addis Ababa on June 13. Interrupted by loud cheers from the visitors’ area in the upper gallery in the back of the hall, she exclaimed: “If all the women in Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town, decided they would stop working for a week, the economies of Africa would collapse.”
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China's changing tone on African investment -... →
“You may not see the Chinese but you can see the stadiums and the roads and everything they have built,” says Lawrence Brahm, a Beijing-based political columnist. “The jury on their role in Africa’s development is out. I still think that the great game between China and the West will be played out in Africa.”
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Interview on Africa 360 - Sec Clinton 2011-06-11 →
35 minute video.
When my husband signed the African Growth and Opportunities Act back in 2000, there were a lot of people who said this will never work, there is just not the environment in which it can take hold. But in fact, in 10 years, we have seen the trade between the United States and Africa quadruple…
But within the $4 billion now of trade, there are many different businesses...
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A strategic revolution in HIV and global health :... →
A good example of the new integration opportunity is AIDS in children. There are around 400 000 new childhood HIV infections each year. But in the 68 countries where most child deaths occur, coverage with antiretroviral treatment for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV is painfully low. The independent Countdown to 2015 group estimated that PMTCT coverage was only 22% in...
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AIDS comes of age, but who will pay the bill?... →
Without question, a big reason for the progress made in the past decade is the sums of money brought to bear by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created by George Bush in 2003 and expanded by Barack Obama, and by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a free-standing institution in Geneva that gets money from rich countries to fund grants to needy...
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Save the Children UK : Bono at Glastonbury →
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He combines the charisma of a rock star with the technical ability of a policy wonk. The man who sings anthems to stadiums can also argue the intricacies of debt relief with an IMF economist. He has been a at the forefront of the campaign whose idealism and vision captured the hearts of millions
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Close Read: AIDS, Thirty Years Older : The New... →
Michael Specter, who wrote a Profile of Kramer in 2002, reported a few weeks ago on one breakthrough: a study showing definitively that antiretrovirals can reduce the transmission of the virus in a dramatic way.
We don’t know how to make a vaccine, though, or how to completely stop people from being reckless, or politicians from being ridiculously destructive in their rhetoric, or poverty and...
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The End Of AIDS? The Economist 2011-06-02 →
Some 5m lives have already been saved by drug treatment. In 33 of the worst-affected countries the rate of new infections is down by 25% or more from its peak.
Even more hopeful is a recent study which suggests that the drugs used to treat AIDS may also stop its transmission (see article). If that proves true, the drugs could achieve much of what a vaccine would. The question for the world will...
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Going from Voodoo to vaccines - CNN.com 2011-06-21... →
When Americans and others fund the distribution of vaccines in the developing world, they are not only helping children. They are taking the side of good people working for the health and future of their country. We are not just helping the sick; we are joining with partners who are willing to perform the hardest tasks. We should be honored to be allied with them.
But now they are waiting...
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Vaccinations: The Silent Success Story
2011-06-21
A pledging conference of Gavi donors - which includes world leaders, charities, private companies and philanthropist Bill Gates - today hopes to build on the organisation’s success in preventing more than five million deaths in its first decade.
Facing a shortfall of £2.3 billion for its work over the next five years, Gavi...
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A Shot In The Arm - Economist - 2011-06-16 →
GAVI said it needed $3.7 billion between now and 2015 for new vaccines, mainly to prevent pneumonia and diarrhoea, the biggest killers of young children. On June 13th, at a conference in London, the group got its wish, and more, with donors pledging $4.3 billion to help immunise 250m children.
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Why America must advance innovation in Africa -... →
“In our global economy, progress in even the poorest countries can advance the prosperity and security of people far beyond their borders, including my fellow Americans,” President Barack Obama said at the U.N. Millennium Development Goals Summit in September. The president realizes that economic development and progress lead to food security, better health, greater prosperity, enhanced...
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Renewed Commitment to Global Vaccines and... →
In the lead up to GAVI’s conference, the White House received thousands of phone calls, emails, and signed petitions calling for continued U.S. support for GAVI. The ONE Campaign issued a statement of support following our announcement, including praise from Bono who noted the President was “in it to win it.”
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The UN and AIDS: Well, I declare! | The Economist... →
The UNAIDS study which came up with the figure of $22 billion-$24 billion in 2015 also predicted that if this money were deployed wisely, the amount that needed to be spent would fall thereafter. An encouragement, surely, for a final push.
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West Africa Rising: Liberia aims to tap riches,... →
Last night, with 120 days ticking before ballot boxes open in Liberia, the president set another ambitious target for her little country that could: She wants Liberia to wean itself off aid by the decade’s end.
“There’s no reason why we cannot build upon the successes of today to ensure that ten years from now, Liberia should no longer require foreign assistance,” she...
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Africa leaders launch talks on $875 bn trade bloc... →
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – African leaders on Sunday signed an agreement to launch talks on the continent’s biggest free-trade bloc, a $875 billion (597 billion euros) market seeking to boost the region’s economies.
The so-called “Grand” Free Trade Area would cross 26 countries, stretching from Cape Town to Cairo, with a combined population of 700 million people.
“We...
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Star emerging nations needed aid money – but much... →
…the ODI says; development works best when effective leadership, smart policies, strong institutional frameworks and international partnerships mesh. In those circumstances, it is possible to see “remarkable progress” even in countries that have been blighted by war or famine in the recent past.
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BBC News - UN and US launch campaign to eliminate... →
The plan, called Countdown to Zero, was developed by a team led by UNAids and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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(CNN) — Wealthy nations are failing to fulfill their millennium promise to ensure all the world’s children are given decent quality education by 2015, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned.
Brown told CNN there is still the “terrible figure” of some 70 million children who are not in school today worldwide, the majority of whom are in Africa.
He said:...
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Jeffrey Sachs: How Communities Can End AIDS... →
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Every time that financial and human resources are directed to these challenges - whether fighting smallpox (now eradicated) or polio (almost eradicated), or malaria or AIDS - lo and behold, we achieve great progress: death rates down, new infections down, quality of life improved.
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SABCNews - Main Feature > Top Stories 2011-06-04... →
South Africa is slowly moving from global pariah to poster child. The report chronicles the struggles, battles and the victories that have come in fighting the scourge over three decades. UNAids executive director, Dr Michael Sedibe, says with access to treatment, Aids has moved from what was effectively a death sentence to a chronic disease.
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Mozambique Has Patients Team Up To Tackle HIV :... →
The numbers are striking. A few years ago, depending on the area of the country, anywhere from 10 percent to 50 percent of patients were dropping out of treatment. But when part of a patient group, less than 1 percent drop out.
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The Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace? -... →
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Innovation is as American as apple pie. It seems to accord with so many elements of our national character — ingenuity, freedom, flexibility, the willingness to question conventional wisdom and defy authority. But politicians are pinning their hopes on innovation for more urgent reasons. America’s future growth will have to come from new industries that create new...
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11 Myths About Agriculture in Africa | Do... →
Your parents keep telling you to finish your dinner because “there are starving kids in Africa.” Well, there are a lot of myths about why people in Africa go hungry, as well as false ideas behind the solutions. We asked the ONE Campaign to clarify. Below, the top 11 myths regarding agriculture in Africa.
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ONE | Trade = development 2011-06-03 Tom Hart →
This important trade policy has facilitated importation of more than $4 billion worth of African products, not including oil, into the US each year and helped provide jobs and grow the economies of several African countries. It has increased investment in the manufacturing industries on the continent and most importantly increased family incomes and reduction of poverty in many communities. For...
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A budget cutter with a conscience - The Washington... →
When I caught up with Mitchell (UK Development Secretary) by phone, he was visiting a GAVI immunization center outside Islamabad, Pakistan. “For the price of a Starbucks cup of coffee,” he said, “you can vaccinate nine kids. It is absolutely awesome.” Asked about opposition to foreign assistance increases while other spending is cut, he echoes words used by Cameron: “We’re not going to balance...
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - A manifesto for the... →
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There has been much discussion of the qualifications and nationality of the next head of the International Monetary Fund. This talk is insufficiently ambitious. The fund’s next head must be a genuine economic architect capable of helping to design an entirely new international monetary framework.
The defining truth of our time is that the US-led international order – the one that gave...
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DFID - Action Plans Set Out The Future of UK Aid... →
Today the British Government sets out in detail how it will change the lives of millions of poor people around the world. The full release of the operational plans – available to download here – map out the results UK aid will achieve over the next four years in every country DFID works in.
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