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 Talking Points on the G8 and Africa
July 6, 2009
"As the G8 leaders meet in Italy for the newest conference, new action must be taken to demonstrate that their stated objectives last year, along with those from 2005, reflect more than just rhetoric..." Go >

Congress Acts to Tame Prowling Vulture Funds
June 18, 2009
"Today Congresswoman Waters introduced the "Stop VULTURE Funds� Act (H.R. 2932) to the House of Representatives. Africa Action commends the leadership shown by U.S. congressional representatives and urge that it receive support by the full House so that it can move forward for Senate review. Click here to see which countries are affected by Vulture Funds..." Go >

Africa Action Responds to the Obama Administration�s FY10 Detailed Budget Release
May 7, 2009
"This morning President Obama released the detailed FY2010 budget. Preliminary analysis by Africa Action shows that there are serious funding short falls for HIV/AIDS programs..." Go >

100 Days Pass Obama Administration
April 30, 2009
"The first 100 days of the Obama Presidency has passed. The tone of U.S. foreign policy has changed. It signifies a break from the failures of the past, but with an economic crisis here in the U.S., it would be detrimental to marginalize U.S. policy towards Africa..." 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