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• ONE Welcomes USAID Administrator Nominee Rajiv Shah

  Nov. 10 2009

  Today, President Obama announced Rajiv Shah as his nominee for Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). After the announcement, David Lane, President and CEO of ONE made the following statement: MORE

• ONE reaction to G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St Andrews

  Nov. 9 2009

  Warm words alone won't fight poverty or climate change. While the hosts can be commended for trying, the G20 collectively have failed to ensure that the resources to help the poorest countries adapt to climate change would be additional to existing development assistance. MORE

• Global climate deal ‘matter of life and death’ for millions in Africa - ONE

  Nov. 5 2009

  Finance Ministers from G20 countries meeting in Scotland this weekend are being urged to keep the world's poorest high on their agenda as they discuss how to help developing countries adapt to the disastrous impacts of climate change - and contribute to stemming its rise. MORE

• Global AIDS treatment surges to 4 million thanks to increased investments

  Sept. 30 2009

  ONE welcomed today's United Nations report that found the number of people being treated for AIDS worldwide surged to more than 4 million people last year, with enormous gains in several sub-Saharan African countries. MORE

• “Bring African countries to G20 table,” says anti poverty group

  Sept. 25 2009

  The Pittsburgh G20 Summit appears to have made some progress towards reshaping global power structures to make them more representative, said anti poverty campaign group ONE. But media reports of the draft communiqué indicate the G20 still has some way to go before it becomes a truly representative global decision making body. MORE

• Gates Foundation Launches “Living Proof” Campaign on ONE.org, Spotlighting African Success Stories

  Sept. 24 2009

  ONE today announced it would work closely with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch the Living Proof Project: Investments in Global Health are Working, a multi-year awareness campaign by the Gates Foundation to highlight the extraordinary success of the United States and other G8 government's efforts to improve health around the world. MORE

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