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

Widespread Praise of Bush�s Africa Visit Ignores President�s Flawed Legacy
February 20, 2008
"As President Bush returns to the United States after his visit to Africa, Africa Action challenges the view that the Bush administration's policy toward Africa will leave behind the positive legacy of a 'compassionate conservative'..." Go >

Progress Yes, But A Lot More Needs To Be Done!
January 7, 2008
"This campaign update addresses the latest global HIV/AIDS estimates that came out in late 2007, the status of PEPFAR reform and Africa Action's 2008 priorities in the fight against the pandemic..." Go >

Opportunity 2008: the Presidential Candidates and U.S. Policies to Fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and Worldwide
December 18, 2007
"Africa Action calls on all candidates for the 2008 U.S. Presidency to make the fight against global HIV/AIDS a priority. This resource outlines the current positions of leading candidates on this issue..." Go >

U.S. Must Support Full Spectrum of Human Rights in Africa
December 10, 2007
"Africa Action marks Human Rights Day with a call for U.S. policy to play a constructive role in promoting the civil and political rights of the people of Africa as well as peace and human security and the right to health..." 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