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Among the African nations that are not currently embroiled in political crises, many are suffering through a health epidemic that has doomed an entire generation. Of the global total of 36 million people infected with HIV in 2000, about two-thirds live in sub-Saharan Africa. Among the three million people who die of AIDS every year, 85 percent are from Africa. The U.N. estimates that if the epidemic is not controlled, Africa will lose 35 percent of its labor force...
...beat this deadly disease, African nations will need to devote resources that they do not have. African nations spend only $165 million a year to combat AIDS. But according to James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, an effective and comprehensive prevention program for sub-Saharan Africa would cost $2.3 billion a year...
...counseling Annan on the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut worldwide poverty in half by 2015. The plan includes increasing access to health care, primary education, drinkable water and housing and seeks to reverse the spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa...
...beneficiary of the weekend marathon, organized by HAR’D Corps, was the Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which funds AIDS research in the United States and sends money for relief efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Bush’s budget cuts aid to sub-Saharan Africa for fiscal 2003 from $100 million to $77 million. That compares with $448 million for Jordan. While giving aid to Jordan might be necessary to maintain (some) peace in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa deserves much more attention and funding than it currently receives...