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Africa AIDS Initiative ("AAI") plans to launch the AIDS Fund for Africa ("AFFA"), a five-year global ftindraising campaign designed to provide $1 billion' in financial support to HIV/AIDS programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The fundraising campaign will be launched simultaneously in New York City and in Africa in December 2002. AAI, in collaboration with universities and colleges and corporate, faith-based and non-governmental partners, such as Global AIDS Alliance, Global Justice, National Council of Women, and Youth Against AIDS, hopes to raise and invest $50 million by December 2003.

Unlike other large-scale, HIV/AIDS fundraising campaigns, which primarily target governments and major foundations, AFFA will focus on a grassroots mobilization of resources. While this community-based approach does not preclude support from governments and major foundations, it nevertheless openly acknowledges the fundamental responsibility of civil society in countries around the world to act in support of the people of Africa. Only a grassroots campaign can tap the collective power of individuals, families, and communities to bear on the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

AFFA is unique because it challenges millions of people from around the world and from all walks of life to make individual contributions to stop AIDS in Africa. To reach its goal, this campaign will connect people where they work, live, worship, study and wherever they come together. The campaign will remind people that what happens in Africa matters to each and every one of us. Moreover, AFFA will ensure that HIV/AIDS programs actually receive donor contributions, by separately raising money-an additional $75 to $100 million-for overhead costs. The success of AFFA will lie in its ability to get funding into the hands of effective programs in Africa and to monitor the results of these investments. AAI has already begun to identify programs for priority funding and will transfer this responsibility to AFFA in the fall of 2002.

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