When more than 80 percent of new HIV cases in the hardest-hit countries are teenage girls, that’s a tragedy; that sets us back. So America is beginning a partnership with 10 African countries — Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe — to keep teenage girls safe and AIDS-free. (Applause.) And when girls cannot go to school and grow up not knowing how to read or write — that denies the world future women engineers, future women doctors, future women business owners, future women presidents — that sets us all back. (Applause.) That’s a bad tradition — not providing our girls the same education as our sons.
Kwa nia ya kuongeza ubora wa elimu, tumechukua hatua thabiti za kukabiliana na tatizo la uhaba wa walimu, vitabu, maabara za sayansi na vifaa vya kujifunzia na kufundishia. Tumepanua mafunzo ya ualimu wa Cheti, Stashahada na Shahada. Hii imetuwezesha kuongeza idadi ya walimu wa Shule za Msingi kutoka 135,013 mwaka 2005 hadi 202,752 mwaka 2015, na walimu wa Shule za Sekondari kutoka 18,754 mwaka 2005 hadi 88,908 mwaka 2015. Uhaba wa walimu wa masomo ya sanaa si tatizo tena, tunao wa kutosha.