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  • SMART Aid Success Stories

    9 June 2009

    There are countless examples of SMART Aid programmes achieving results across Africa whether in fighting disease, promoting literacy, boosting agriculture, helping African countries to trade and attract investment, or empowering African citizens to fight corruption and hold their own governments to account. MORE

  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria

    26 March 2009

    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, created in 2002, raises and distributes significant resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which together killed nearly 4.2 million in 2007. MORE

  • U.S. Efforts to Fight Global Malaria

    25 March 2009

    U.S. malaria funding goes through two main streams - the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the President's Malaria Initiative - and some additional money is channeled through other bilateral programs. MORE

  • 100% Multilateral Debt Cancellation Deal: Status of Implementing the G8 Promise

    24 March 2009

    At the July 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, G8 leaders pledged to cancel the debts of the world's most indebted countries, many of them located in Africa. MORE

  • The Millennium Challenge Account

    24 March 2009

    The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) is an innovative approach to foreign assistance that delivers substantial new resources to a carefully selected group of poor countries to support development and poverty reduction.
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  • The African Growth and Opportunity Act

    24 March 2009

    One of the most important tools in the fight against poverty is trade. The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is one way in which the U.S. has worked to open its markets to African producers.
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  • U.S. Funding for Global AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria PEPFAR and Beyond

    24 March 2009

    The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was announced by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union Address as a five-year, $15 billion initiative to combat global HIV/AIDS. It was reauthorized in 2008 for up to $39 billion to fight HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR is the largest international health initiative in history dedicated to fighting a single disease. MORE

  • The Millennium Development Goals

    24 March 2009

    In 2000, leaders from 189 nations signed on to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight ambitious targets designed to significantly reduce global poverty and disease by 2015. MORE

  • HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    21 March 2009

    Every day, nearly 11,500 people die from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, nearly two-thirds of whom are living in sub-Saharan Africa. MORE

  • HIV/AIDS

    21 March 2009

    Every day, 5,500 people die from HIV/AIDS and another 7,400 people are infected with the AIDS virus. MORE