2. Treat the people in immediate clinical need. The United States must support antiretroviral treatment for people with HIV in clinical need, and commit the resources and personnel required to reach the WHO goal of at least three million people with HIV on antiretroviral treatments by 2005, 7 million by 2007, and towards universal treatment for all people with HIV/AIDS by 2012.

3. Support trade policies that ensure access to affordable generic drugs. The U.S. will remove and cease inserting provisions in bilateral and regional trade agreements that limit countries' ability to take appropriate measures to address HIV/AIDS and other public health problems. The U.S. will no longer prevent countries from exporting generic medicines to developing countries that have issued a compulsory license to meet public health needs, or to countries where no patent is in effect. US Trade policy must promote access to affordable medicine for all impoverished nations.

4. Drop the Debt. Candidates must pledge to use the power of the U.S. Treasury, as the largest donor to the IMF and the World Bank, to fully cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries, and put an end to the imposition of structural adjustment policies such as user fees and privatization of health care, education, and water.

5. Implement disease prevention policies be guided by science, not politics. The U.S. must support effective, science-based prevention strategies, rather than politicized and unscientific approaches such as abstinence-only interventions. The U.S. must commit adequate resources to ensure access to a global supply of HIV prevention information, programs, and commodities to avert 29 million of the most preventable new adult HIV infections projected between now and 2010.

6. Stop the crisis amongst orphans and vulnerable children. The U.S. should commit billions of additional funds to address the needs of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The U.S., working with other nations, should ensure the implementation of policies that provide total support to orphans and children in developing countries infected and affected by AIDS, through enrollment in school, housing, and access to health and social services.

7. Invest in the empowerment of women and girls. The U.S. must support policies that reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to infection and needless death, including greater access to female condoms; the development of vaginal microbicides to prevent sexual transmission of HIV by 2008; greatly expanded access to HIV, STD and reproductive health services; and programs preventing maternal-to-child transmission while ensuring treatment for mothers and family members.

8. Fight tuberculosis and malaria as part of a comprehensive plan to combat HIV/AIDS. The U.S. must uphold the targets set out with leaders of other wealthy nations in the G8 Okinawa 2000 agreement to reduce tuberculosis deaths and prevalence of the disease by 50% and reduce the burden of disease associated with malaria by 50% by 2010. For successful treatment of malaria, the U.S. should help finance the implementation of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in areas of high resistance to first-line treatments.

9. Ramp up research and development. The United States should commit considerable new resources towards developing effective vaccines and microbicides as well as simplified antiretroviral treatment and monitoring tools adapted for use in resource-poor settings along with novel and adaptive treatments for tuberculosis and malaria.