ONE Campus Challenge

The Crisis:

1 billion people around the world live in extreme poverty, earning less than $1 a day.
13,000 people die every day from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, three treatable and preventable diseases.
12.1 million African children have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Over 9 million children die before their fifth birthday every year, nearly all of them from treatable and preventable causes.
Every year, over half a million mothers die from complications during child birth, and tens of millions more suffer from pregnancy related illnesses and injuries.
72 million children are not enrolled in primary education, more than half of whom are girls.
More than a billion people lack access to clean water and 2.6 billion do not have access to basic sanitation.

The Opportunity:

Today, solutions exist that are affordable, achievable and effective.

Life-saving antiretroviral drugs for people with AIDS now cost as little as 36 cents a day. Thanks to programs like the Global Fund and the United States� Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), nearly 3 million people are now receiving antiretrovirals.
For less than $6, a bed net specially treated with insecticide can be purchased and distributed to protect against malaria. In countries where nets have been widely distributed, such as Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya, deaths from malaria have fallen by more than 50%.
Debt cancellation has saved African countries over $70 billion, which along with targeted aid for education helped send an additional 29 million more African children to school for the first time. In Tanzania, for example, enrollment doubled after the government used its debt savings to abolish primary school fees.
Three million more children survive every year thanks to investments in basic health systems and vital treatment and prevention measures. Proven effective solutions such as access to clean water, vaccinations and a basic healthcare package can lower the risk of childhood death by two-thirds. Most of these interventions are extremely affordable - for example, oral rehydration therapy to treat dehydrating diarrhea costs only 42 cents per dose.

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