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Pick up our latest beaded bracelet today. $1 from each bracelet sold goes to the Global Fund.

It’s handmade in South Africa by Relate, a non-profit social enterprise that gives dignity and hope to those whose lives have been impacted by HIV/AIDS.

The Fight

It's a scenario that's becoming frighteningly familiar: huge proposed budget cuts to poverty-fighting programs. These cuts mean moms won't receive medicine to make sure their babies are born HIV-free. Bed nets won't get delivered to protect families from malaria. It's time to make sure these cuts don't fall on the people who can least afford them.

  • 1.3 million
    fewer pentavalent vaccines for kids
  • 2.2 million
    fewer bed nets to protect against malaria
  • 124,000
    more kids becoming AIDS orphans
112,500
Pregnant moms who might not receive meds to protect their babies from HIV
690,000
children will suffer
Number of children who will suffer decreased nutrition

Tell Congress to protect the world's most vulnerable from devastating budget cuts.

After 0.7%, it’s time the aid debate grew up

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After 0.7%, it’s time the aid debate grew up

Although this piece focuses on UK foreign assistance, it raises some important concerns that citizens  in the US and Canada might have about their country’s own aid. This article was originally published on The Huffington Post UK.  The debate on the UK’s aid budget has never been more polarized. A small group of aid critics use

6 Surprising facts about Chinese aid to Africa

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6 Surprising facts about Chinese aid to Africa

It’s undeniable. China has a huge presence in Africa. Many Africans can point out Chinese-funded buildings, roads and mines, and it’s not uncommon to see more than a few Chinese faces around construction projects and efforts across the development sector. As the country moves toward the up and up both economically and as a world

Maximizing US global health investments: Investing in the frontline

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Maximizing US global health investments: Investing in the frontline

Almost every week on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition’s blog, someone from our 30 member organizations tells another story illustrating the inspiring and tremendous impact frontline health workers are making in saving and improving lives around the world. What might not be as well known is that, according to USAID, 0.0000087 percent of the US budget in 2011 went to global health programs, including programs that help thousands of frontline health workers save millions of lives.

 

The Progress

It’s a little known fact: less than 1% of the total US budget goes to lifesaving programs that educate children and fight global diseases every day. This 1% does a world of good – but now we’ve got to step up and protect it.

  • 50 million
    kids going to school for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 600,000
    HIV/AIDS infections prevented in kids
  • 50%
    familes in sub-Saharan Africa with a bed net
8 million
Number of people now receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS
5.5 million
children's deaths averted
Number of children's deaths that haven been averted thanks to immunizations

Tell Congress to protect the world's most vulnerable from devastating budget cuts.