OT: Clinton Builds On HIV/AIDS Plan With Global Development Agenda--- Would Set Goal To End All Malaria Deaths In Africa
- From: Liberals Love America <liberals-love-liberty@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:15:36 -0800 (PST)
Just days after announcing a comprehensive strategy to fight HIV/AIDS
in the U.S. and abroad, the Clinton campaign unveiled an aggressive
agenda to combat other infectious diseases and poverty in developing
nations. Hillary Clinton will discuss her proposals at the Third
Annual Global Summit on AIDS and the church hosted by Pastor Rick and
Kay Warren at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA.
The plan includes at least $50 billion to provide universal access to
treatment, prevention, and care for global HIV/AIDS by 2013. The plan
also includes a $1 billion per year commitment to address malaria
infection in Africa, with the goal of stamping out malaria deaths in
Africa altogether by the end of her second term.
Groups working to fight malaria lauded the plan and Clinton's
leadership on the issue. "The Roll Back Malaria Partnership applauds
Hillary Clinton's bold commitment to fight malaria," said Dr. Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health of Ethiopia and Chair of the
Roll Back Malaria Partnership Board.
The Clinton plan also includes investments in providing the world's
children with free, basic education, expanding opportunities for
women, and eliminating the debt of the world's poorest countries.
HILLARY CLINTON'S PLAN TO COMBAT DISEASE AND POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD
Today, Hillary Clinton unveiled her strategy to fight disease and
raise hope, opportunity and human dignity around the world. Her plan
will reduce poverty, improve health outcomes, increase educational
opportunity, expand economic development, and improve political and
economic stability around the world.
America has a long and proud history of fighting poverty and
encouraging economic development around the world. But that commitment
has lagged relative to our own wealth, and in comparison with other
prosperous nations. We need again to reclaim this great tradition,
which is a testament to the kindness, generosity, and wisdom of the
American people. America has long represented the ideal of
opportunity. We must once again reclaim our leadership in promoting
opportunity around the world. We do this first and foremost because it
is right. And we do it also because it is smart. Gnawing hunger,
poverty, and the absence of economic prospects are a recipe for
despair. Globalization is widening the gap between the haves and the
have-nots within societies and between them. Today, there are more
than two billion people living on less than $2 a day.
As First Lady and Senator, Hillary Clinton has a long record of
advocacy for increased development assistance. She has sought to
increase funding for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs,
raised awareness about the transformative power of microcredit
programs, fought to expand education to all children, worked to
improve access to essential health services, and has lead efforts to
expand recognition of human rights as women's rights, and women's
rights as human rights. As President, she will continue her
leadership, with a focus on:
Investing $50 Billion for Global HIV/AIDS by 2013 to Ensure Universal
Access to Treatment, Prevention and Care
Committing to the Bold Goal of Ending all Deaths from Malaria in
Africa
Ensuring US Leadership in Achieving Free Basic Education for All
Expanding Women's Opportunity as a Tool for Development
Improving Health and Opportunity for the World's Children
Eliminating the Debts of the World's Poorest Countries
Maximizing the Impact of Increased Development Assistance
DETAILS OF HILLARY CLINTON'S PLAN TO COMBAT DISEASE AND POVERTY AROUND
THE WORLD
$50 Billion for HIV/AIDS to Ensure Universal Access to Treatment,
Prevention and Care: Hillary Clinton will commit $50 billion for
global HIV/AIDS by 2013, which will help ensure universal access to
treatment, prevention and care.
Hillary will double the number of people receiving AIDS treatments
through U.S. programs and strengthen prevention programs across Africa
and the developing world. She will invest in a major effort to help
African countries build their health infrastructures, including by
increasing the number of health workers in place or in training in
Africa by 1 million.
She will also increase the U.S. commitment to the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and strengthen bilateral efforts to
halt and begin to reverse the incidence of tuberculosis globally. She
will also work to strengthen partnerships with faith-based groups and
other non-governmental organizations that have been a critical in
helping to address HIV around the world. The details of Hillary's plan
to fight global AIDS are at: www.hillaryclinton.com.
Bold Goal of Ending all Deaths From Malaria in Africa: Hillary
believes we need a full frontal assault on malaria, which needlessly
kills more than 1 million people each year and eats up 40% of public
health expenditure in many African countries.
Combating malaria is also critical to truly strengthening health
infrastructures and effectively combating AIDS, tuberculosis and other
diseases. To that end, Hillary has set a bold goal of ending all
deaths from malaria on the African continent by the end of her second
term. Malaria kills more African children than any other disease--more
than AIDS and tuberculosis combined. An African child dies from a
mosquito bite every 30 seconds. And malaria exacts a devastating
economic toll, lowering economic growth by 1.3% in countries with high
transmission rates.
As President, Hillary will commit $1 billion per year as a major down
payment to end malarial deaths in Africa. This investment, alongside
U.S. commitments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and
Malaria, will help spur global action to achieve universal access to
treatment and preventative measures by the end of 2012. With universal
access to a set of low-cost interventions--including treatment with
effective medicines, free long-lasting insecticide treated bed-nets,
and indoor residual spraying where appropriate--this initiative will
dramatically reduce transmission and, by the end of Hillary's second
term, stamp out deaths due to malaria altogether.
Similar approaches in countries like Kenya and Tanzania have already
produced striking results, and faith-based groups and other non-
profits are helping in countries across Africa to combat malaria at
the community level. Senator Clinton's malaria effort will put us on a
path to achieve the long-term goal of completely eradicating malaria
from the planet. Hillary will direct the NIH to work with leading
research and non-profit institutions to move toward that goal. She
would also encourage use of research prizes and advanced market
commitments to spur innovation to address other neglected diseases
that cause needless death and suffering in poor countries.
US Leadership in Achieving a Free Basic Education for All: Hillary was
the original Senate sponsor in 2004 of the Education for All Act,
which she helped reintroduce in 2007 as bipartisan legislation with
original House sponsor Congresswoman Nita Lowey as well as Republican
Senator Gordon Smith and Congressman Spencer Baucus. The bill calls
for the US to take a leadership role in helping all children complete
a free, quality basic education, in part by expanding funding to $3
billion annually by 2012. Education, particularly for girls in poor
nations from Africa to South Asia to Latin America has been shown to
be one of the highest returning investments any nation can make in its
people--especially when we open doors to secondary as well as primary
education.
Education increases incomes, reduces poverty, strengthens communities,
prevents the spread of HIV/AIDS, improves child and maternal health
and helps empower women and girls. A strong American leadership role
can help win hearts and minds and point more young people to peaceful
and constructive futures. Hillary is adamant about the elimination of
formal and informal school fees, the need for school feeding and
health initiatives, and the importance of ensuring that educational
access, quality and accountability go hand in hand. Through the
Education Fast Track Initiative, she believes we can work
cooperatively to ensure predictable and adequate funding, so that we
can hire the teachers and commit to an expansion of quality education
without overcrowding.
Hillary further recognizes that if we are serious about "education for
all," we must have a strategy to reach the children that too often
fall through the cracks. That is why she supports Senator Tom Harkin's
effort to work with the ILO to get children out of dangerous child
labor and into school, and also recognizes the need for special
strategies to provide education for orphans, children who are victims
of trafficking, those with disabilities, and the tens of millions of
young people who are internally displaced, refugees or in countries
emerging from conflict.
Expanding Women's Opportunity as a Tool for Development: In 1995,
Hillary Clinton traveled to Beijing to represent the U.S. at the
United Nations Conference on Women, and delivered the message that
human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
While the world has made great progress in the years since, we are
still far from achieving that vision. Failure to involve women fully
in the economic, political, and social sectors around the world
needlessly limits our potential for progress.
Greater economic diversity cannot be achieved if half the population
cannot participate in business, inherit property, or attain skills
needed to seek employment. And science, research and innovation will
stagnate unless we ensure that women have access to education. Women
make up the majority of the poor in the world, and are often underpaid
for their labor in nontraditional workplaces. As President, Hillary
Clinton will expand access to women's economic development
opportunities, and seek to bring microcredit programs into the global
marketplace. More than 500,000 women die annually in childbirth, and
for each of one those women, another 20 experience serious
complications from pregnancy.
Hillary will expand access to health care and nutrition for all women,
reduce the burden of maternal mortality, and improving their access to
essential reproductive health and family planning services. Women
produce about half of the world's food, but own only about 1% of the
land upon which it is grown. Hillary will work to ensure that women
have equal protection under the law, and are not denied property or
inheritance rights that lock them into poverty.
She will also work to improve enforcement of anti-trafficking and anti-
violence laws that protect women's health and well-being around the
world - laws that have been enacted and carried out in part through
the advocacy of modern-day abolitionists, including many faith based
groups.
Improving Health and Opportunity for the World's Children: Throughout
her career, Hillary Clinton has fought to help children, and as
President, she will ensure that children's needs are addressed in her
poverty reduction strategy. Simple investments in nutrition,
vaccination, and public health can save the lives of millions of
children annually.
Spending less than 10 cents annually on Vitamin A supplements could
save more than 500,000 children. Spending less than a dollar on
measles vaccinations could save another half a million. Hillary
believes that the U.S. can be a leader in achieving the Millennium
Development Goal of reducing deaths of children under 5 by two-thirds.
As President, Hillary Clinton will work to extend access to lifesaving
healthcare and treatments for children, and work to ensure that
pediatric health services are integrated with other essential care and
support services.
She is also committed to improving access of children to nutritious
food and clean water. Poverty, disease, and conflict have increased
instability for far too many of the world's children. More 200 million
worldwide have been orphaned, and another 20 million are estimated to
have been forced to leave their homes due to situations of conflict.
These children are vulnerable to traffickers, militias, and others who
would exploit them. Hillary will work to improve enforcement of anti-
trafficking regulations, and create safe spaces for displaced children
in schools.
Eliminating the Debts of the World's Poorest Countries: The
international community's commitment to debt relief is working to
reduce poverty and increase economic opportunity in many of the
world's poorest countries. Led by the Jubilee movement and President
Clinton's historic commitment in 2000 to provide enhanced debt relief
to the poorest nations, the major donor nations have forgiven more
than $70 billion in poor country debts.
These resources are being invested in improving health and education
outcomes for poor countries, and are improving their ability to access
investment necessary for economic growth. However, many poor continue
to face high debt burdens that are undermining their ability to combat
HIV/AIDS and invest in their people.
As President, Hillary will ensure complete debt cancellation for all
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) countries, and will expand HIPC
to include more than 20 additional poor countries that commit to using
the resources freed up from debt relief effectively. Hilary will
ensure that this new debt relief results in additional resources for
poor countries to invest in health, education and other key
priorities.
Maximizing the Impact of Development Assistance: Hillary Clinton is
committed to increasing development assistance and making significant
progress toward spending an additional 1% of our budget on foreign
assistance. She also wants to ensure that increased U.S. development
assistance is spent in a smart, coordinated and efficient manner with
a measurable impact on people's lives.
Recent attempts to reform foreign assistance have met with opposition
and concern that there is not sufficient transparency or input from
experts in the field. Hillary Clinton will engage in a comprehensive
review of U.S. assistance efforts, in consultation with experts and
those carrying out programs at the country level, to identify areas
where our development goals are at odds with our development
bureaucracy.
As part of this review, she will consider consolidating program
authority under a single cabinet-level poverty and international
development agency. She will also seek to improve coordination with
other donor governments, so as to minimize the administrative burdens
on recipient countries, and also examine ways in which we can make US
aid more efficient and better track, monitor and evaluate the use of
U.S. funds. In addition, Hillary would improve operations research, so
that we can easily identify and replicate successful programs.
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