Budget Shortfall on the President’s Global Health Initiative
The President's proposals reflect a genuine improvement in the US approach to global security and development. However, without sufficient funding for implementation, the President's good intentions are relegated to mere rhetoric. As long a gap persists between discourse and dollars, so too will the disparity exist between need and investment in global development initiatives. This only serves to exacerbate global destabilization. The result: a devastating impact on countless lives around the world and national security here at home. The US already aggressively employs Defense and Diplomacy to achieve national security. It is imperative that President Obama's commitment to full deployment of Development be funded if we are to create a meaningful solution to this problem.
On February 1, 2010, in response to President Obama's Global Health Initiative FY 2011 Budget Request, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Honorary Chair of the Global AIDS Alliance Advisory Council and Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, said the following, "The poor and the vulnerable of the world are deeply thankful for the past generosity of the United States and when the United States stands behind its words with investments that significantly drive development, as we will begin to see the kind of progress that is desperately needed by countless children, mothers, families and orphans around the world. For their sake, the U.S. must increase its financial commitment to global health. In so doing, they will find that they are also working toward their own national security."
Events
PAST: Media Call for Journalists: Monday February 1, 2010 at 2 pm EST
Policy Positions
Civil Society Defines Global Health Initiative
A Global Fund for Health MDGs?
Media Accountability
War on AIDS Hangs in Balance as U.S. Curbs Help for Africa
Media Accountability on President Obama's Global Health Initiative
St. Petersburg Times Political Fact Check: The Obama-meter
Press Releases
amFAR Responds to President Obama's FY 2011 Budget
Global AIDS Alliance Responds to President Obama's FY 2011 Budget
Global Health Initiative Coalition Responds to President Obama's FY 2011 Budget
Global AIDS Alliance Responds to the State of the Union
Global Health Initiative Coalition Responds to State of the Union
Links
Testimony Calls for Full Funding of US Global Health Programs
Comments by Professor Jeffrey Sachs on President Obama’s FY 2011 Budget Request on the Global Health Initiative (GHI)
Transcript of the Media Call for Journalists
President Obama's Global Health Initiative FY2011 Budget Request
Global Health Initiative Coalition
Funding Background One-pager
Talking Points on Budget Shortfall
Fact Sheet on Obama's Broken Promises