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 >

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Africa Action Talks About World AIDS Day on BlogTalkRadio
December 2, 2009
"Click here to listen to Michael Stulman reflect on the rally and march on World AIDS Day in Washington, DC. According to Africa Action, AIDS is not in recession but due to a recent budget proposal from President Obama, clinics have been forced to turn away new patients..." Go >

ABC News: Before World AIDS Day, Obama Administration Scores D+ from Global AIDS Groups
December 2, 2009
"Administration officials today touted the 'major accomplishments' made on combating HIV/ADS, but also noted that 'much more has to be done.' Yet the Obama administration is facing large criticism from global AIDS and Africa solidarity organizations � smacking the White House with a D+ rating on the work President Obama has done so far in office..." Go >

AIDS Activists to Obama and Fenty: Your Decisions are Failing People Living with HIV: "Funeral� Staged at White House, Creative Action At DC�s City Hall: 12 noon Assembly at Lafayette Park
December 1, 2009
"On World AIDS Day, Africa Action joined AIDS activists from around the country and gathered in front of the White House and then marched to DC�s Wilson Building. The message to President Obama: "maintain the current, flawed course and millions will die�or fix the system and they will live..." Go >

World AIDS Day: President Obama Earns a �D+� in Fighting Global AIDS; Organizations Call for Urgent Course Correction
November 30, 2009
"On the eve of World AIDS Day, global AIDS and Africa solidarity organizations released a report card today evaluating President Obama�s first year in office�giving the President and his Administration a 'D+' for work so far...." 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