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January 15, 2009:  Donald A. Holzworth, Accordia Board Member and Chairman of Futures Group International, has been appointed to the President’s Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS (PACHA).

ABC News recently interviewed Accordia's Senior Vice President of Program Development, Kelly Willis, on the new landmark study Accordia is conducting in partnership with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify the most effective and cost-efficient way to prepare healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa to treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

November 24, 2008: Accordia Global Health Foundation, formerly the Academic Alliance Foundation, has received a $12.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a landmark study to identify the most effective and cost-efficient way to prepare healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa to treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The study results could have an enormous impact on the way doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals across the continent are trained.

While rivaling militias continue to ravage the war-torn region in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the people of DRC are rebuilding their communities. Millions of lives have been lost through starvation and disease, exacerbated by years of war, and resulting in the isolation of the very people most in need of international support. From this crestfallen region, Accordia encountered a symbol of hope: Dr. Mike Upio.

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