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Accordia Urges Improved Impact Evaluation of Capacity-Building Programs in Africa

July 22, 2010, Washington, DC – At the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, this week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton both stressed the need to better measure the effectiveness and efficiency of programs designed to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Gates noted, "We can't keep spending AIDS resources in exactly the same way we do today… As we continue to advocate for more funding, we also need to make sure we're getting the most benefit from each dollar of AIDS funding and every ounce of effort."

Accordia Global Health Foundation’s new report, Return on Investment: The Long-Term Impact of Building Healthcare Capacity in Africa, presents some of the opportunities and the early work being done to measure key areas of long-term capacity-building initiatives in African health systems that are designed to fight infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

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