Africa still in chains . . .

On the eve of the G-7 Summit in Okinawa, remind the Clinton Administration thereâs still a long way to go to cancel debts and end structural adjustment!

• Zambia: 20% of the population is HIV positive, the government spends $17 per person on health and $30 per person on debt service to western financial institutions
  
  
• Niger: less than 20% of young women are enrolled in schools, more is spent on debt repayments than on education and health care;
  
  
• Failed development and economic programs such as structural adjustments programs (SAPs) continue to devastate the African continent and peoples;
  
  
• African women are expected to meet needs no longer met by governments, such as medical care and food security while girls lose out on education when fees are imposed;
  
  
• Tanzania: spends 9 times more on debt than health; 40% of population dies before age 35;
  
  
• One out of 20 African mothers dies at childbirth; and
  
  
• 17% of Africaâs children die before the age of five.

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