IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 349
Recognizing the importance of addressing extreme poverty in Africa, recog-
nizing the devastating impact that HIV/AIDS has had on the African 
economy, recognizing the need for the development of a safe blood supply 
in Africa, and congratulating the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for 
hosting the ‘‘Live 8 2005’’ concert. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 30, 2005
Mr. FATTAH submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the importance of addressing extreme poverty 
in Africa, recognizing the devastating impact that HIV/
AIDS has had on the African economy, recognizing the 
need for the development of a safe blood supply in Afri-
ca, and congratulating the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania for hosting the ‘‘Live 8 2005’’ concert.
Whereas extreme poverty has reached epic proportions with 
1,000,000,000 people throughout the world now living on 
less than one United States dollar a day; 
Whereas extreme poverty is especially acute in Africa, where 
72 percent (upwards of 80 percent in Chad and Ethiopia) 
of the African urban population reside in slums (defined 
as households that lack access to improved water or sani-
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tation, security of tenure, durability of housing, or suffi-
cient living space); 
Whereas Africa is the poorest region in the world, experi-
encing virtually no growth in individual incomes for the 
past 30 years; 
Whereas Africa is the largest region in the world with an av-
erage economic growth rate of less than four percent, 
while five percent growth is required just to prevent the 
number of poor people from increasing; 
Whereas the poverty of Africa extends beyond a lack of mate-
rial resources and is also characterized by exclusion of 
many people from decision-making and basic social serv-
ices; 
Whereas Africa’s economy will not grow as a result of the fol-
lowing two trade dynamics: 
(1) Africa does not produce enough goods of the 
right quality or price to enable access to world markets. 
(2) Africa faces indefensible trade barriers which, di-
rectly or indirectly, tax its goods as they enter the mar-
kets of developed countries.
Whereas the resolution of such economic and social poverty 
for an entire continent can only be approached from a 
global perspective that takes account of how the global 
community interacts with and provides aid to Africa; 
Whereas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been tightly linked 
to addressing the plight of Africa through the efforts of 
the late Reverend Dr. Leon Sullivan, founder of the Op-
portunities Industrialization Centers (OIC); 
Whereas Dr. Sullivan’s efforts expanded internationally, in-
cluding Africa, through the development of OIC Inter-
national, the International Foundation for Education and
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Self Help, the Global Sullivan Principles, the Leon H. 
Sullivan Summit and the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation; 
Whereas these organizations and the principles they embody 
recognize that the preservation and development of Africa 
requires education, business development, investment, 
and technical assistance from Africans, Americans, and 
the rest of the developed world; 
Whereas in support of such a global approach, many inter-
national aid organizations have focused attention on the 
need to address extreme poverty in Africa, such as by or-
ganizing Live Aid 1985, a concert which helped raise 
awareness of Africa’s terrible economic and social condi-
tions and helped raise investment to counter such condi-
tions; 
Whereas a Live Aid event has been organized again for 2005, 
and is scheduled to take place on the eve of the G–8 
Summit in Scotland on July 6–8, 2005; 
Whereas Live Aid 2005, termed ‘‘Live 8 2005’’ due to the 
ensuing G–8 Summit, is comprised of five public concerts 
in five G–8 member countries; 
Whereas the Live 8 2005 event host for the United States 
is Philadelphia, which will host a massive outdoor concert 
on July 2, 2005; and 
Whereas a similar resolution has been introduced by the 
Mayor of Philadelphia and has been adopted by the mem-
bers of the United States Conference of Mayors: Now, 
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) recognizes the importance of working to 
eliminate extreme poverty in Africa;
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(2) recognizes the devastating impact that HIV/
AIDS has had on the African economy by under-
mining Africa’s ability to effectively compete in the 
international marketplace 
(3) recognizes the need for the development of 
a safe blood supply in Africa and the creation of an 
African Institute of Health modeled after the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention; and 
(4) congratulating the city of Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania for hosting the ‘‘Live 8 2005’’ concert.
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