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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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www.postmilenio.com<br />

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.

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