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12 Ways Africa Will Remember Barack Obama, First Black US President

12 Ways Africa Will Remember Barack Obama, First Black US President

More than half the Ebola deaths in 2014 were in Liberia. Photo: AP/BBC

He increased HIV treatment and built hospitals for African Ebola victims

Obama increased the number of people receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS from 1.7 million in 2008 to 6.7 million by 2013. His administration also deployed a 3,000 military personnel to build hospitals in Liberia in 2014 to treat Ebola victims. The disease killed more than 11,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

Source: The Guardian