Africa Action: Campaign to End HIV/AIDS in Africa

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Campaign to End HIV/AIDS in Africa

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is the greatest global threat in the world today. Africa is ground zero of the crisis – home to nearly two-thirds of those living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Africa’s HIV/AIDS crisis is the direct result of centuries of global injustice. Now, African efforts to defeat HIV/AIDS are hindered by insufficient resources and by U.S. and international policies that restrict access to essential treatment and comprehensive health care. Africa Action’s Campaign to End HIV/AIDS in Africa mobilizes U.S. activists to change the policies of our own government to help end the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. more >

What's New

Africa Action Applauds U.S. Decision to Lift HIV Travel Ban, Calls for Sustained U.S. leadership on Global Health Ahead of Global Fund Board Meeting
November 6, 2009
"Ahead of this weekend�s 20th Board Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria, it�s vital that the U.S. fulfill its commitment to fight HIV/AIDS and fully fund The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria..." Go >

Africa Action Talking Points on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
October 29, 2009
"This updated Africa Action resource explains what the Global Fund is, and includes FAQ, resources, links, and information..." Go > [PDF] [GlobalFundTalkingPoints_11.01.09.doc]

The Future of Global Health: Ingredients for A Bold & Effective U.S. Initiative
October 27, 2009
"President Obama�s Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents an historic opportunity to achieve bold and ambitious targets in the fight against the most daunting global health challenges of our generation. Click here to the civil society report on The Future of Global Health..." Go >

New Report Identifies Priorities and Price Tag for President Obama�s Leadership on Global Health
October 23, 2009
"Members of the media are invited to a special teleconference call and join Africa Action with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, UN Special Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals, Director of Columbia�s Earth Institute, Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, director of Uganda�s Joint Clinical Research Center, and The Hon. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) Thursday, October 29, 2009, 10:00 AM ET. Click here for RSVP information..." Go >

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In 2005, more than 3 million people across the globe died of AIDS. Over 75% of these deaths were in Africa.

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	AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa.
	Sub-Saharan Africa is home to just over 10% of the world’s population, but approximately two-thirds of the world’s HIV/AIDS cases.
	Of 15 million AIDS orphans worldwide, 12 million are in Africa.
	In some African countries, more than 1 out of every 5 people are living with HIV/AIDS.
	Women account for nearly 60% of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
	At best, 2 in 10 Africans living with HIV have access to life-saving treatments.


	"Years from now people will ask about AIDS in Africa — as with the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide — ‘How could the world have known — and failed to act?’" Africa Action
	"I have to say that the ongoing plight of Africa forces me to perpetual rage. It's all so unnecessary, so crazy that hundreds of millions of people should be thus abandoned." Former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis, 2005
	"The vision which fueled our struggle for freedom… will be needed if we are to bring AIDS under control. This is a war." Former South African President Nelson Mandela, February 2002
	"If this would have happened in the Balkans, or in Eastern Europe… with white people, the reaction would have been different." *Peter Piot*, UNAIDS, July 2000