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Africa's Access Bank Donates $1 Million to Global Fund

From Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

September 30, 2010

Africa's Access Bank "has announced a donation of the sum of $1 million to the Global Fund's Gift from Africa" project redeemable over a 3-year period (2010 - 2012)," according to the New Times/allAfrica.com. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Access Bank's group managing director, said "the Gift from Africa project provides the Bank with an opportunity to lead other African private sector institutions and demonstrate to the world that Africans are prepared to share the responsibility for solving Africa's challenges," adding that the Bank hopes to become a "significant partner" of the Global Fund (9/30). A press release details this and other recent donations to the Gift from Africa project (9/22).

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