Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement to The Hill

concerning its 2006 decision to award $25 million to the Clinton Foundation
to fight AIDS in Asia.

“The Australian Government takes a rigorous approach to ensure all investments

made using official development assistance funding are responsible and
sustainable. The funding provided to the Clinton Foundation and its affiliate was
used solely for agreed development projects. All funding had clearly allocated
budgets, linked to project deliverables and outcomes, and were subject to the
performance standards expected of all implementing partners.

“The partnership delivered strong outcomes, including:

• Providing HIV testing to more than 22,000 pregnant Papua New Guinean
women to help prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. The
partnership helped diagnose infants with HIV early in 21 of PNG’s 22
provinces.
• Providing HIV testing to 60,242 and 2,606 new enrolments in HIV care to
Indonesians. CHAI also contributed to an increase in antiretroviral
treatment coverage in Papuan provinces from 3 percent to over 50 per
cent.
• Placing over 5,000 Vietnamese children on antiretroviral treatment by mid-
2014, exceeding the end of the program target of 3,900 by June 2015.”