He also called for a deeper commitment to basic education across the continent, where school enrollment levels are dangerously low in some regions, and called on western pharmaceutical manufacturers to work to find cost-effective ways to provide preventative medicines and vaccines to curb the high rates of AIDS and tuberculosis through much of the continent.

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With only three years before the 2015 target date for the MGDs and EFA, , there are still major deficiencies in some countries as 67 million children are still excluded from primary school, almost 800 million adults lack basic literacy skills and too many children are leaving school without the necessary learning and skills that will enable them to enter the job market.

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In the Al Marj Middle School, one can observe how everyone (school, parents, community) can take a stand for teachers in the context of some innovative school projects, such as the ones IQRA is carrying out to foster reading, as a basic competence for improving learning.

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