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Oxfam America
stated on October 5, 2016 in a tweet:

"The world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2016

Daily Caller
stated on September 19, 2016 in an article in the Daily Caller:

"Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa."

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2016

Ertharin Cousin
stated on September 6, 2016 in a speech transcript on Medium:

"One extra year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality rates among their children by up to 10 percent."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2016

Justin Trudeau
stated on August 25, 2016 in a letter:

Young women, "account for a shocking 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa."

Mostly True

By Joseph Cariz • September 7, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Says Hillary Clinton tripled the number of people with AIDS whose "lives are being saved .. and it did not cost you any more money."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 in at the White House:

Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "we’ve got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 5, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 in a press conference at the White House:

Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."

Half-True

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016

Doctors Without Borders
stated on July 21, 2016 in a press release:

Trade deals threaten "India’s role as the pharmacy of the developing world" for new HIV medicines.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2016

Tina Rosenberg
stated on June 14, 2016 in an article:

In Liberia, "a girl is more likely to be married by 18 than to know how to read."

Mostly False

By Kate Wilkinson • August 1, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic national convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "negotiated the first agreement — ever — where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2016

UN's UNICEF
stated on July 6, 2016 in an article on Medium:

In South Sudan, "more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 25, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2016 in a speech in San Diego:

"95 percent of the world’s customers are … beyond our shores."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2016

Snapchat
stated on June 30, 2016 in a snapchat:

"90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate" in Morocco.

False

By Joseph Cariz • July 14, 2016

Morten Jerven
stated on June 29, 2016 in an article:

For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, "we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 7, 2016

David Miliband
stated on June 26, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":

"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits."

True

By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on June 26, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":

Says British voters "under 50, especially millennials, overwhelmingly voted to stay," in the European Union. "It was older voters who voted to leave."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • June 26, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on June 15, 2016 in a senate hearing:

"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2016

David Beckham
stated on June 10, 2016 in a UNICEF video:

"Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world."

True

By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2016

Robin Wright
stated on May 25, 2016 in an event at the Rockefeller Center:

Says Apple products are currently "90 percent conflict-free," and "Intel is 100 percent conflict-free."

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • June 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 8, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."

True

By Jon Greenberg • June 15, 2016

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