A memo from the Center for Global development is offering suggestions to the US to enhance its commitment towards policies that are beneficial for poorer countries, after notching up 17th rank out of 22 wealthy nations in the Commitment to Development Index of 2009. The memo consists of a set of 20 recommendations which include increasing foreign aid especially through vehicles such as the Millennium Challenge Corporation, which provides a cash on delivery fund to well governed countries who receive the funds after performing and showing the expected outcomes. This would also help in reduction of aid projects’ proliferation.

HIV/AIDS advocates reflecting on some recent criticism came together at the International AIDS Conference AIDS 2010, constituted of President Obama’s commitment to the global AIDS program. According to a blog on Huffington post, dollars which were extremely critical to save lives of patients suffering from AIDS haven’t even left Washington or have been wasted as overhead around the world which could have been avoided. According to the post’s authors, the commitment renewal to save lives of HIV/AODS patients has never been more critically required. In an example, the post quotes about AIDS healthcare foundation where programs funded by US had turned away many Ugandans who flooded the AIDS clinics. The authors felt that America had indeed made a commitment towards the fight against AIDS and every dollar not spent to save the life of an AIDS patient or to prevent the spread of an infection is a dollar that has been misspent.

The author of the blog has also urged the African leaders to start thinking on the lines of new tools like malaria vaccine which would complement the existing interventions. Another post on UN Dispatch interestingly lists 7 things that the country can do to help reach the millennium development goals.