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Africa: First Ladies Join U.S. Doctors for Africa


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US Doctors For Africa (Washington, DC)

PRESS RELEASE
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 24 July 2008

African Synergy against AIDS and Suffering (African First Ladies NGO) has formed a strategic partnership with US Doctors for Africa (USDFA).

The strategic partnership would allow enhancing advocacy, and bringing additional medical expertise, knowledge and resources in order to help advance the First Ladies efforts to create an effective and sustainable complementary approach in the fight against all types of scourges plaguing Africa's development, in particular HIV/AIDS and Poverty.

African Synergy against AIDS and Suffering (AFRICAN SYNERGY) is a non-profit, non governmental organization that is recognized under the laws of all 22 member countries, with the following strategic objectives:

- Mobilize African societies and the International Community to fight against AIDS and other scourges

- Foster the emergence of a more harmonious African Society to better cope with the challenges of globalization

- Contribute to the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals in Africa

- Promote the development of generation of young Africans in the face of the threat of AIDS

- Start a continental movement for the development of the girl child

- Contribute to the curbing of maternal, neonatal, infant and child mortality in Africa

- Contribute to the quest for peace and the alleviation of the suffering of victims of conflict and crisis in Africa

- Participate in the fight against poverty and malnutrition

- Set up a solidarity fund to support the different efforts being deployed against HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases.

US Doctors For Africa (USDFA) is a humanitarian organization committed to increasing access to medical care for diseases and conditions affecting the people of Africa. By mobilizing and distributing medical manpower, mobile clinics, supplies, and equipment to medical institutions throughout the continent of Africa. USDFA is dedicated to providing medical and preventative healthcare and capacity-building to regions of Africa without available medical services.

USDFA will mobilize volunteers and other resources from the United States and strategically distribute these resources in regions where they are most needed, in accordance with AFRICAN SYNERGY's recommendations.

USDFA and AFRICAN SYNERGY share the common belief that healthcare is a basic human right, and recognize that a healthy population is essential for growth, development, and prosperity in every society.

Because the quality of care depends on understanding the cultures and contexts in which it is provided, in compliance with their respective mandates, USDFA and AFRICAN SYNERGY will design and implement each response in concert with local needs and expertise, alert to regional circumstances and aware of ethnic, religious, cultural and/or national sensitivities.

USDFA and AFRICAN SYNERGY has formed this strategic partnership in line with their common aim to create strong, strategic partnerships with NGOs, medical institutions, Governments, International Organizations and all individual or corporate bodies of good will operating in African countries in order to effectively and efficiently mobilize and deliver needed resources to areas in which they operate.

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In April 2009, the first ever "African First Ladies Health Summit" will take place in Los Angeles, California, in order to draw additional awareness and support to the First Ladies social and humanitarian initiatives in Africa. The focus will be on the threat of HIV/AIDS on Children in Africa. This will be the first of many conferences scheduled on an annual base hosted by US Doctors For Africa.


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