Ashley Morris Erica Shnayder Adam Percy Nana Sang-Bender

Thesis The HIV/AIDS NGO movement needs to broaden its focus and become more preemptive. NGOs need to form a more connected network to optimize efficiency.

The Global Fund  Role in the movement Bank of the AIDS movement

Mission – Global Health

 Scientific Research  Antiretroviral Drugs  Diagnostic testing

-  Setting an Example – getting people involved and willing to contribute  Greater availability of Antiretroviral drugs Bill Gates and Bill Clinton on AIDS

 Not enough concentration on preventative measures  Many people can not even get to the cities where diagnostic tests and antiretroviral drugs are being offered  Too unilateral - Not enough collaboration with other NGOs  LA Times Criticisms LA Times Criticisms

Accountability Politics Symbolic Politics

Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Number of employees? approximately 520 Syracuse University Number of Employees: 4000

 Bono and Bobby Shriver  Launched in 2006  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (2002)

(RED) contributions to The Global Fund = $ 100 million

Use of (RED) funds  The Global Fund has granted (RED) funds for use in Ghana, Swaziland, and Rwanda Money has been used for: Preventative treatment Training health workers and nurses Establishing feeding programs Providing essential medicine Supplying home based care for infected patients Teaching about safety

Benefits of (RED)  $42.58 million raised by (RED) auction in February 2008 Art auction  Over $60 million raised by (RED) products to date Five times the amount of money raised previously by the private sector Mass interest sparked by media campaign The only corporations donating to The Global Fund  Manufacture of (RED) products in Africa Boost to economy Motorola is printing their (RED) packaging in Africa

Shortcomings of (RED) campaign  Is this money helping the people they say it will? Where the Global Fund puts the money Wasteful spending ○ Over $100 million spent toward advertising, according to Ad Age `Gap, Motorola, and Apple Inc. CNBC clip Reaction to NY Times article featuring Bobby Shriver

ONE: The campaign to make poverty history  United States based  Advocacy Organization Meant to raise public awareness  Focuses with other NGOs (over 100) to help the AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria problem  Focuses on other underlying issues as well Poverty Clean water Education

Problem  Meant to raise awareness, but does it?

Why look at ONE?  The second generation NGO  Multiple strategies to solve the problem  Still has a focus, even when it connects so many organizations

 Education: People must be educated about HIV/AIDS not just about the use of condom. Lusaka Sunrise  Working with other NGOs: Like the ONE Campaign.  Transportation: Not everyone in developing countries live in the cities.  Use Leverage Politics.

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Citations  "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 15 Mar  Okie, Susan. "Global Health - The Gates - Buffett Effect." The New England Journal of Medicine 355: (2006): 1-7.  Piller, Charles, Edmund Sanders, and Robyn Dixon. "Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation." Los Angeles Times 07 Jan Mar  “ONE Campaign to Make Poverty History.” The One Campaign. Mar 2008  UN Data    RED website   Argument from the Independent  western-brands-more-than-africa html western-brands-more-than-africa html