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

AIDS Activists Rally at White House Today
November 20, 2008
"On Thursday, November 20th at 1:00 PM, one thousand activists will join a rally by the White House to support President-elect Obama's historically bold commitments to reform and expand US programs to fight HIV/AIDS at home and abroad, and call for the implementation of his pledges in the first 100 days of office..." Go >

AIDS Advocates to Inaugurate Obama as the President Who Will Finally Change the Way the U.S. Fights AIDS
November 20, 2008
"Today, one thousand people living with HIV and allies from across the United States rallied in front of the White House to hold an �inauguration ceremony� for Barack Obama as the president who, during his first one hundred days, will prioritize policies to end the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and worldwide..." Go >

BEYOND PEPFAR REAUTHORIZATION ACT!
August 6, 2008
"On July 29, President Bush signed into law the PEPFAR reauthorization act. This campaign update highlights the main changes from PEPFAR 2003 to the 2008 Reauthorization Act in addition to spotlighting the next focus areas in Africa Action's campaign to end HIV/AIDS in Africa..." Go >

Senate Passage of AIDS, TB and Malaria Bill An Important Step Forward
July 18, 2008
"Africa Actions applauds the hard work of activists that has led to a much improved PEPFAR reauthorization bill, but urges the U.S. to do more to lift the external debt burden that continues to cripple the development of African health care systems..." 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