Over the last 30 years, the Open Society Foundations had expenditures of more than $8 billion. Much of this spending has been directed at specific priority issues and regions for the Open Society Foundations such as:

• $976 million on democratic development in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;

• $527 million for public health issues such as HIV and AIDS, TB, palliative care, harm reduction, and patients’ rights;

• $163 million to fight discrimination and advance the rights of Roma communities in Europe;

• $1.9 billion to defend human rights, particularly the rights of women, ethnic, racial, and religious minorities, and often marginalized groups such as drug users, sex workers, and LGBTQ communities;

• $1.7 billion for education projects ranging from preschool to higher education reform, and; 

• $1 billion to promote reform in the United States on issues such as criminal justice, drugs, palliative care, education, immigration, equal rights, and democratic governance.

In 2009, the Open Society Foundations had expenditures of $683 million in support of justice, human rights, public health, media, governance, and education. 

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