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Fall 2010 - Now is the time to End the Waiting Lists

Ten million people worldwide still lack access to life-saving medication, even though the cost of treatment is less than $200/year per patient. New evidence shows AIDS treatment can prevent a partner from becoming HIV+ by 92% - combined with other prevention methods, we can stop the spread of HIV. Providing treatment to people in need ensures lives will be saved and HIV infections will be averted - a win/win scenario. But, as the NY Times said, President Obama’s broken AIDS funding promises make a return to the 1990s likely: “walking skeletons in the villages, stacks of bodies in morgues, mountains of newly turned earth in cemeteries.”

You Should Know...

Pres. Obama says that the US is giving more to fight global AIDS than ever in the history of US global AIDS programs. But the insignificant increase in funding proposed doesn't even keep pace with inflation!

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Why We Are Organizing

OBAMA TO PEOPLE WITH AIDS:

WAIT TO DIE

OBAMA TO DOCTORS:

WATCH YOUR PATIENTS DIE

PEOPLE WITH AIDS & ALLIES TO OBAMA:

KEEP YOUR PROMISE
There are 10 million people around the world who still lack access to AIDS drugs. AIDS Treatment costs less than $200 a year for first-line medication. With treatment, a person with HIV can live a full life. And treatment lowers the amount of virus in a person's body, so they are 92% less likely to pass HIV on to others. By providing treatment to people in need, we can save lives and reduce the number of new infections. By not funding treatment, the US and other governments are condeming people to death, and increasing the number of new HIV infections. Because the US and other wealthy nations haven't funded global AIDS as they promised, millions of people are being forced onto waiting lists for AIDS drug. They will likely die without access. Because AIDS treatment has not been funded as promised, doctors are forced to choose who is most in need of medicine. This impossible choice is made harder when everyone who comes in the door is in desperate need. Many people do not seek treatment until they are sick, and turning them away or telling them to find somewhere else to get treatment is, in essence, telling them to go home and wait to die. In some places, the US government has told doctors to stop enrolling any new patients in treatment programs, unless an existing patient dies. On the campaign trail, Obama promised to increase funding for global AIDS to $50 billion over five years. This amount of funding would allow the US to more than double the number of people receiving HIV treatment, and scale up HIV prevention services. It would be sufficient to increase the number of doctors and nurses working in communities. Instead of keeping his promise, Obama has used the economic crisis as an excuse to flat-line funding for global AIDS. This means millions of people are being forced onto AIDS drug waiting lists. Without medicine, people will stop getting tested for HIV at high rates. Infection rates will go up. In short, all of the progress that has been made to date on fighting global AIDS will be lost if Obama does not keep his promise.
 

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