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Truths, Half-Truths and Un-Truths from the Obama Administration
The Obama Administration has been put on the defensive about its flat-funding of Global AIDS programming and the inevitable treatment waiting-lines and deaths-while-waiting that have occurred. But they continue to publicize a standard set of part-truths that tell a lie – untruths that withhold vital information and misrepresent clearly established facts. This litany of disinformation is catalogued and rebutted on TakeANumber.org | More
Sign up to join the Fall 2010 Campaign to End the Waiting Lists
Are you concerned about growing waiting lists for treatment around the world? Do you know a group that wants to campaign around funding for global AIDS this fall through World AIDS Day (December 1st)? Health GAP, as a part of our TakeANumber.org campaign, will soon be releasing a campaign kit that groups can use to join the campaign to pressure Obama to keep his promise to fund global AIDS programs. If we all join, then we can have a strong coalition advocating in sync with each other to demand that Obama and Congress keep their promises to fund global AIDS programs. | Learn more
CTL-for-Health/FTT-with-Health: Resource-needs Estimates and an Assesment of Funding Modalities
Recognising the growing global support for the implementation of different types of financial transaction taxes, a new report by Professor Brook Baker seeks to clarify the scale of the financing gap that needs to be filled if the health-related MDGs are to be met, and detail the different mechanisms that could be used to channel new resources for health through to developing countries. | Download the Report
Wrap-up from AIDS2010: We're Winning!
Health GAP is just returning from the International AIDS Conference, where we joined with 200 organizations from around the world to organize a massive thousand-person march to the opening ceremony. We carried with us a strong message that people with AIDS and allies will not sit silently by while governments break their promises to fund AIDS programs. We declared, in our signs, banners, chants and speeches, "Broken promises kill! No retreat. Fund AIDS." And governments - especially the US government - took notice. | More
AIDS treatment caps lifted in Uganda by White House
Today advocacy organizations in the US and Uganda welcomed the announcement that the U.S. global AIDS program, PEPFAR, has reversed severe restrictions that capped enrollment of new HIV patients on life saving treatment in Uganda, following criticism and outcry from people with HIV, clinicians, advocates, and public health experts in the US, Uganda and around the world. | More
Health GAP and 18 Other Organizations File Official Complaint to UN on Obama Trade Policies
Over a dozen AIDS groups from the U.S., African, Asia and Latin America filed a complaint against the United States with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. The complaint alleges
alleges that the United States, at the behest of pharmaceutical corporations, uses it trade policies to coerce countries into adopting intellectual property policies that violate the rights of their citizens to access affordable medicines. | More
Health GAP & TakeANumber.org at AIDS2010
Tens of thousands of people who work on AIDS will be headed to the International AIDS Conference in Vienna. It's an amazing opportunity to make sure that President Obama hears that his broken promises are causing the unnecessary death of thousands, and he hears it directly from people living with HIV from around the world.
Study proves HIV treatment is HIV prevention
A peer-reviewed study in The Lancet showed that placing people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment created a 12-fold reduction in transmission to their HIV-negative partner. This 92% decrease in the likelihood of transmission confirms the importance of scaling up widespread testing and reaching universal access (at least 80% coverage) to AIDS treatment. This finding suggests that the Obama Administration strategy of virtually flat-funding AIDS and slowing or halting scale up of access to AIDS treatment will undermine the world’s ability to eventually defeat HIV. | More
Leaked memo shows Obama's plan to end new AIDS treatment slots
President Obama's strategy to fight AIDS in Africa is at risk of failing, according to advocacy organizations, who pointed today to new developments including leaked official Administration documents instructing major Global AIDS program implementers to stop enrolling sick and dying patients due to program underfunding. | More
Health GAP launches TakeANumber.org to call attention to Obama's broken AIDS promises
President Obama promised to increase funding for global AIDS. Instead, he has not substantially increased funding, and millions of people are being forced to 'take a number' and wait in line for medication that may never arrive. | Join the campaign
Tiny tax on banks, Billions for the People and the Planet
Health GAP is joining our allies to call for a Financial Transactions Tax, a tiny tax on speculative transactions that make bankers trillions of dollars in profits. The tax would raise money for important needs like AIDS treatment around the world, and job creation at home. | Check out the campaign
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BBC: Obama criticized in the fight against AIDS | more
The Lancet: Effect of development assistance on domestic health expenditures | more
Press Round-up from AIDS2010 | more
Democracy Now!: 8 Arrested in NYC Protesting Obama's AIDS Policies | more
The Seminal, Firedoglake.com: Obama Breaks Campaign Promise About Spending on AIDS | more
NY Times: As Need Grows, the Money for AIDS Runs Far Short | more
Newsweek: AIDS Programs hit setback in Africa | more
Boston Globe: US Seeks to Rein in AIDS Program | more
International Journal of Health Services: Impact of the IMF's Macroeconomic Policies on the AIDS Crisis | download only
Huffington Post: A tiny tax on the banks, huge change for the world | more
Philadelphia Gay News: Spending bill lifts needle exchange funding ban | more
Queerty: Who's Christmas Was Crashed Better? | more
The NY Observer: Elsewhere | more
America Blog: AIDS Activists Carol outside Hillary Clinton's House | more
NY Daily News: Daily Politics Roundup | more
News12 Westchester | AIDS rally held near Clinton's Chappaqua home | more (Cable internet required to view)
LoHud.com: AIDS Activists sing near Clinton home in Chappaqua | more
Boston Globe Opinion: An Express Line for AIDS Treatment | more
IRIN News: PEPFAR unveils new strategy, but more funds needed | more
Scripps Howard News Service: World AIDS Day Demonstrators say HIV is not in Recession | more
PBS NewsHour: On World AIDS Day, Strategy for Future of PEPFAR Released | more
TPMDC: Is Obama failing on AIDS? | more
Democracy Now: Obama receives D+ in report card from AIDS groups | more
ABC News: Before World AIDS Day, Obama Administration Scores D+ from Global AIDS Groups | more
Voice of America:
New Report Puts Forth Proposals for U.S. Global Health Initiative
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IPS:
U.S. Urged to Double Aid to Global Projects | more
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report: Advocates Call For Increased U.S. Investment In Global Health | more
HIV Plus: Health GAPers highlighted as top 25 LGBT HIV Activists in 25 yrs | more
Compilation of press coverage from G-20 protest in Pittsburgh | more |
