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<strong>Post</strong>-Milénio... Às Sextas-feiras, bem pertinho <strong>de</strong> si!<br />
Prime Minister reaffirms Canada’s<br />
commitment to helping the world’s<br />
most vulnerable<br />
Prime Minister Stephen<br />
Harper participated in<br />
the UN Millennium<br />
Development High Level<br />
Plenary in New York. The<br />
meeting provi<strong>de</strong>s an opportunity<br />
for countries to take<br />
stock of progress, i<strong>de</strong>ntify<br />
gaps and galvanize efforts<br />
towards achieving the United<br />
Nations Millennium<br />
Development Goals by 2015.<br />
In his address to the plenary, the<br />
Prime Minister pressed for countries<br />
to keep their promises to attain practical,<br />
durable <strong>de</strong>velopment solutions,<br />
to <strong>de</strong>liver results on the Millennium<br />
Development Goals and to be<br />
accountable in doing so.<br />
“Our words here today must<br />
translate into simple realities like<br />
food on the table, improved health<br />
and a better life for children around<br />
the world”, said Prime Minister<br />
Harper. “Canada has a clear open and<br />
transparent record in this area and<br />
we’re proud of what we’ve accomplished.”<br />
Canada has ma<strong>de</strong> significant<br />
progress towards meeting the<br />
Millennium Development Goals and<br />
making its international assistance<br />
more effective, including:<br />
• making Canada's international<br />
assistance more efficient and<br />
accountable by focusing on food<br />
security, children and youth, and economic<br />
growth;<br />
• doubling support for agriculture<br />
<strong>de</strong>velopment at last year’s G-8<br />
Summit;<br />
• putting in place a comprehensive<br />
international food strategy;<br />
• untying food aid to substantially<br />
increase the effectiveness of each<br />
dollar spent;<br />
• doubling its overall international<br />
assistance from 2001-2002 levels,<br />
totalling $5 billion in 2010-2011; and<br />
• doubling its aid to Africa, totalling<br />
$2.1 billion in 2008-2009.<br />
He also highlighted a number of<br />
Canada’s international achievements,<br />
including the G-8 Muskoka Initiative<br />
on Maternal, Newborn and Child<br />
Health — expected to mobilize significantly<br />
greater than $10 billion<br />
from G-8 and non-G-8 lea<strong>de</strong>rs, key<br />
donors and private foundations —<br />
and the G-8 aid accountability report.<br />
The Prime Minister used the<br />
opportunity to commit an additional<br />
$540 million over three years to the<br />
Global Fund to Fight AIDS,<br />
Tuberculosis and Malaria. This is in<br />
addition to a total of $978.4 million<br />
that Canada has committed and disbursed<br />
to the Global Fund since<br />
2002.<br />
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De <strong>24</strong> a 30 <strong>de</strong> <strong>Setembro</strong> <strong>de</strong> 2010 7<br />
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced<br />
significant canadian contribution to global<br />
fund to fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria<br />
Prime Minister Stephen Harper<br />
announced the Government of<br />
Canada’s contribution to the<br />
third voluntary replenishment of the<br />
Global Fund to Fight AIDS,<br />
Tuberculosis and Malaria. He ma<strong>de</strong><br />
the announcement at the United<br />
Nations’ Millennium Development<br />
Goals Summit.<br />
“Too many lives in <strong>de</strong>veloping countries<br />
are being lost to diseases that can be prevented<br />
or treated. Canada is pleased to support the<br />
Global Fund’s prevention, treatment and care<br />
programs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and<br />
malaria, which are saving millions of lives,"<br />
said Prime Minister Stephen Harper.<br />
“Mothers, newborns and young children are<br />
particularly vulnerable to these diseases. Our<br />
commitment to the Millennium Development<br />
Goals is further reflected in the Muskoka<br />
Initiative and our lea<strong>de</strong>rship through the G-8<br />
for a multi-country commitment to save the<br />
lives of mothers, newborns and children.”<br />
Canada’s increased commitment, ratified<br />
with this new pledge, builds upon previous<br />
Canadian contributions to the Global Fund<br />
since 2002. This new pledge will help to safeguard<br />
the substantial achievements already<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> through the Global Fund and will expand<br />
prevention, care and treatment for those most<br />
vulnerable to the three diseases.<br />
The Global Fund is a unique public/private<br />
partnership that has saved approximately 5.7<br />
million lives since it was established in 2002.<br />
The Global Fund has achieved results such<br />
as the provision of HIV treatment to 2.8 million<br />
people, the <strong>de</strong>tection and treatment of 7<br />
million new cases of Tuberculosis, the distribution<br />
of 122 million bed nets to prevent<br />
malaria and the <strong>de</strong>livery of 142 million malaria<br />
treatments. Canada is a founding partner of<br />
the Global Fund.