The Trumps have never done anything that doesn't benefit them economically. Everyone likes to imply Hillary was grifting money with her foundation but that is not the actual truth.
Just for the record: A small handful of the dozens of projects the Clinton Foundation is involved in...
HIV/AIDS
When the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) was founded in 2002, only 200,000 people were receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS in low and middle income countries, with medicines that cost over $10,000 per person per year. Drug pricing agreements have saved the developing world more than $1 billion. Working with the governments of developing countries and the pharmaceutical industry, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) has helped dramatically lower the cost of lifesaving medicines and diagnostics for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Globally, CHAI negotiates price reductions for drugs and diagnostics, customize products for resource-limited settings, and work to broaden the supply base and increase the quality of these treatments.
The Chakipi Acceso Network
Women entrepreneurs in the Chakipi Acceso network are expected to at least double their current incomes. Chakipi Acceso is a last-mile distribution enterprise that equips women in Apurimac, Peru with sales skills training and consigned products such as packaged foods, personal care items, pharmaceuticals, solar lamps, and clean cookstoves. The Chakipi entrepreneurs then sell these products to others within their communities providing essential, life-changing goods that are otherwise hard or impossible to access.
Delivering Lifesaving Vaccines in Ethiopia
Most low-income countries have national immunization programs that routinely vaccinate 70 to 90 percent of their infants. The eight vaccines included in most programs, together, usually cost less than $20 per infant. However, the inclusion of the newly developed rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines could nearly double this cost. The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is partnering with the governments of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi to support the national rollout of the new pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines and to capture lessons that will help other countries successfully introduce these vaccines. When pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccine programs reach national scale in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi, nearly 50,000 child deaths will be prevented each year.
Scaling Up Treatment for Diarrhea
Diarrhea is responsible for more than 700,000 deaths among children each year. Zinc and Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) – a highly effective treatment that can cost less than US 50 cents per child – can prevent over 90 percent of these diarrhea-related deaths, yet less than 1 percent of children who are in need of treatment are receiving it. The root cause of this issue is that providers and consumers are often unaware that zinc and ORS is the recommended treatment, which creates a lack of demand. Due to this, suppliers have limited incentive to invest in distribution and promotion of these products. To overcome this, CHAI is working in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda to scale up the usage of these products by building demand, and increasing availability in both public and private facilities.
Effective Health Care in Papua/New Guinea and Indonesia
By working with partners, CHAI is implementing the Rapidly Expanding Access to Care for HIV (REACH) Program, which will simultaneously save lives and strengthen health service delivery by expanding HIV-related services in 17 hospitals across Papua and West Papua. The program will also establish 120 satellite health centers, bringing health care to poor and remote communities, which will eventually be sustained through government health systems.
Additionally, CHAI and its partners have planned to scale up an integrated service approach to health services for tuberculosis, HIV treatment, and prevention of HIV transmission between mothers and their child. Over the next four years, CHAI, in partnership with the government of Indonesia, is working to test approximately 640,800 people for HIV, and provide nearly 20,160 people with antiretroviral treatment. The project is anticipated to reach more than 80 percent of people in need of testing and treatment.
Improving Pediatric Care in the Niger Delta
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is rich in oil but poor in infrastructure due to its history of strife. Before CHAI set out to make HIV/AIDS care accessible in the region, only a handful of hospitals were providing HIV services to the tens of thousands requiring it. With funding from the National Dutch Postcode Lottery, CHAI has been working to increase access to HIV/AIDS services for children through early infant diagnosis (EID) programs which could potentially avert up to 50 percent of deaths. CHAI’s work has resulted in a 350 percent increase in pediatric testing and an 80 percent return of patients who were previously not returning for treatment.
Soyco LTD
Providing a reliable buyer to 100,000 local farmers. Locally operated agribusinesses create jobs and help farmers build sustainable livelihoods. These businesses are reliable, long-term buyers for local produce and offer farmers a buffer against the price fluctuations that are endemic to the market. The Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI) and Rwandan co-investors established Mount Meru Soyco Limited, a large soy processing business that will produce cooking oil. Soyco will supply the Rwandan market, create jobs, and expand export opportunities. The company is contracting with an estimated 100,000 local farmers to grow soybeans.
Just sayin'.
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