What We’re Reading 5/6/09
New York Times: Obama Seeks a Global Health Plan Broader Than Bush’s AIDS Effort
President Obama proposed yesterday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy to fight AIDS, malaria and other preventable diseases that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, President George Bush. Both the NY Times and Associated Press reported on the news, and both quoted ONE co-founder Bono’s reaction. “The question is no longer whether we can fight these diseases in the poorest countries, it is how much do we want to do? The president is answering ‘a lot,’” Bono said.
CongressDaily: SENATE BILL PROVIDES $500M FOR AFRICAN POVERTY RELIEF
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee moved legislation Tuesday authorizing nearly $500 million to go toward poverty relief in Africa. The bill sponsored by Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry and ranking member Richard Lugar authorizes $468.2 million to be contributed to the African Development Fund. It was unanimously approved by voice vote.
Daily Monitor: IMF Cautious on Africa’s Growth Prospects
The International Monetary Fund has further cast a dimmer economic prospect for Sub-Saharan Africa next year as uncertainties continue to hover over the region amid a global economic recession. The latest forecast, a revision of earlier announcements by the Fund, puts economic growth at 1.5 per cent in 2009 meaning Sub-Saharan economies will struggle to sustain development on the back of weakening fiscal and monetary positions.
IRIN: Shortage of midwives “deadly”
The number of midwives worldwide would have to more than double to meet Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal and infant deaths by 2015, according to the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and World Health Organization on International Day of the Midwife.
And what have you been reading? What headlines and articles have grabbed your attention this week? Feel free to use our comments thread to share what you’ve been reading!
-Chandler Smith
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May 7, 2009 at 1:01 am
I am thrilled that Obama is bringing the discussion of undocumented immigration back to political conversation; I work constantly in my community to engage citizens to understand the facts regarding immigration policy and human dignity. I am not satisfied that Obama’s recent budget request focuses on “border patrol” and employer enforcement because it still focuses on trying to fix resulting problems and not root causes. ONE and its members need to speak loudly about the US addressing trade policies that cause poverty in Latin America and migration to the US. Why doesn’t the US government realize that by controlling the causes for peoples’ migration we can create a world where people thrive in their homeland and do not need to migrate.