SMART AID DELIVERING LIFESAVING RESULTS

African countries with strong and effective governments and agencies have used targeted smart aid and domestic resources to improve health and education, with life-saving results:

• The number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy (ARV) globally rose from just 50,000 in 2002 to approximately 4 million by the end of 2008. ONE estimates that 3 million people in Africa are on ARVs.
• Of the 647 million people at risk of malaria in Africa, the portion covered by insecticide-treated bed nets has increased from 3% in 2001 to 39% in 2007.
• Targeted debt cancellation, development assistance, domestic resources and political leadership helped to enroll 34 million more children in primary school between 1999 and 2006.
• Globally, deaths among children less than five years old have decreased from 12.7 million in 1990 to 9.2 million in 2007. Reductions in Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Ethiopia and Eritrea contributed to this decline.

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