Since President Salovey announced Yale’s enhanced focus on Africa in his inaugural speech, there have been a number of exciting developments on campus and on the continent. Yale was selected as one of 20 academic institutions each to host a cohort of 25 emerging leaders from Africa this summer for a program funded by the U.S. Department of State. Ghanaian President John Mahama has announced a partnership with Yale and the Ministry of Health, IBM and ONE to help Ghana become the first African country to eliminate the mother-to-child transmission of AIDS. Yale College has continued increasing the number of students admitted from Africa with a record freshman class of 21 students from the continent starting next fall. Founder of the Women for Africa Foundation and former vice-president of Spain, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, has partnered with Yale to host a group of African women leaders from the governmental, business, and NGO sectors for an executive training session on campus in spring 2015.
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