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Dear Friend,
 Thanks
to you, another 200,000 supporters have signed the ONE declaration
since our last update, bringing our collective voices to well over half
a million!
The momentum behind ONE is both contagious and historic - let's
encourage all our friends and family to sign the ONE declaration today
and help recruit another 500,000 in the next month!
Click here to
email your friends!
In April, Brad Pitt and ONE returned to Africa to check
on progress
made since our last visit in November, 2004. In Ethiopia, we visited
hospitals that six months ago did not have lifesaving AIDS drugs but
now do thanks to the President's Emergency AIDS plan and other efforts.
There is an encouraging sense throughout Ethiopia that efforts to
combat AIDS are beginning to work. American help is supporting African
efforts to fight back against AIDS and extreme poverty.
But we need to do much more, and quickly. In Ethiopia
and South
Africa, we met many AIDS patients who desperately need these drugs and
are stuck on wait-lists to begin treatment. Every day another 6,300
people die in Africa of AIDS - and everyday another 8,500 Africans
contract the disease. These people need more than just medicines. They
need clean water, food, primary education, and, above all, ways to earn
a living.
What we saw on the trip demonstrates how urgent
assistance delivered
from the U.S. can change lives around the world. However, in the last
few days, Congress has drastically reduced funds requested by the
President to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty in the poorest
countries. Over the next several months, it will be up to all of us,
acting together as ONE, to raise our voices and show support for more
and better assistance in the fight against global AIDS and poverty.
To learn more, click here to view an open letter
to Congressional leaders from ONE in support of these
lifesaving programs.
Again, thank you for continuing to make ONE such a
success. ONE by ONE you are making a difference. Together, as ONE, we will
change the world.
Sincerely,
The ONE Team
P.S. If you haven't had a chance to view the ONE.ORG spot featuring Jamie Foxx,
Cameron Diaz, Tom Hanks, Benicio Del Toro and many others, watch view the video now.
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