February 13, 2002
200 Organizations Call for Urgent Action by President George W. Bush and Congress to Fully Fund the Fight Against AIDS
Dear Member of Congress:
Our organizations are humanitarian, religious, and other groups committed to a full-scale effort to stop the global AIDS pandemic and its related causes, particularly in the impoverished regions of the world, which have been the hardest hit by the AIDS crisis. Because of the unprecedented impact of the crisis, we call on President George W. Bush and the US Congress to provide $2.5 billion in FY 2003 resources to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and to bilateral AIDS programs.
Without bold investment now, projections are that 100 million people will become infected by 2007. The AIDS pandemic and its related causes in Africa, Asia and elsewhere threaten to destabilize nations and undermine global security. We believe taking immediate action to ensure adequate resources to combat AIDS, TB, and Malaria is one of the best ways the US can exert leadership in a troubled world.
Respectfully,
US National/Global Organizations:
Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Africa Action
Africa Faith & Justice Network
Africa Society of the National Summit for Africa
African Immigrants & Refugees Foundation
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
American Friends Service Committee
American Jewish Congress
American Jewish World Service
American Red Cross
Ark Foundation of Africa
Artists Against AIDS Worldwide
Artists for a New South Africa
Calvert Asset Management Company
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Council of Religious AIDS Networks
DIGNITY/USA National AIDS Projects
Disciples Advocacy Washington Network
Doctors of the World, USA
Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundattion
Episcopal Church, USA
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
Foundation for Social & Behavioral Research On Health
Freedom from Hunger
Global AIDS Action Network
Global AIDS Alliance
Global Exchange
Global Immunity
Global Partnerships for Excellence in Education, Research, and Service
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Health GAP Coalition
HIV/AIDS-TB-Malaria Wkg Group, Interfaith Ctr on Corporate Responsibility
Hope for African Children Initiative
Hunger Project
International Network for Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame
Jubilee USA Network
Lutheran AIDS Network
Management Sciences for Health
Medical Mission Sisters: Alliance for Justice
Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
NAACP
National Association of Black Social Workers
National Minority AIDS Council
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Operation USA
Orphans and Vulnerable Children's Task Force
Oxfam
Pact
Pan-African Charismatic Evangelical Congress
Partners in Health
Pathfinder International
Pearl S Buck International
Pendulum Project
Physicians for Human Rights
Planet Poz
POZ Magazine
Presbyterian Church (USA), Washington Office
Project Concern International
Public Health Prevention Service, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
RESULTS
Search for a Cure
Society of Missionaries of Africa
The Futures Group International
Title II Community AIDS National Network
TransAfrica Forum
Treatment Action Group
Trillium Asset Management
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Association
United Methodist Board of Church and Society
U.S. Doctors for Africa
Washington Office on Africa
Women of Reform Judaism
World Conference for Religion and Peace
Youth Against AIDS
US Local/Regional Organizations
ACT UP/Cleveland
ACT UP/DC
ACT UP/East Bay
ACT UP/Philadelphia
ACT UP/New York
African Services Committee, NY, NY
AIDS Care Ocean State of Providence, Rhode Island
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
AIDS Housing Alliance, San Francisco
AIDS Housing of Washington
Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School
Berkeley Gray Panthers
Bishop's Task Force on AIDS-Greek Orthodox Diocese of Chicago
Black Coalition on AIDS, San Francisco, CA
Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues
Blue
Boston Global Action Network Africa AIDS Project
Christian Community Health Center, Chicago, Illinois
Comprehensive Health & Community Services, Inc, New Jersey
Detroit Capuchin-Franciscans JPE Office
Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance
Detroit Province Jesuits Social Ministry Office
Elders for Survival
Equal Partners in Faith
Florida AIDS Action
Food Not Bombs
Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research
Groundwork for a Just World
Harvard AIDS Coalition
Health and Human Rights Interest Group, Univ of Mass Medical School
Heterosexual Infected People Support
HIV Action Initiative
Hospice Alliance of Colorado
Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
Hospice of the Western Reserve
International AIDS Empowerment
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Jubilee Colorado
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Maryland Province of the Jesuits
Middle East Children's Alliance
MIT United Trauma Relief
Mobilization Against AIDS International
Mohawk Valley AIDS Information Network Chair
National Organization of Women, Philadelphia
North Carolina AIDS Policy Center
North Coast HIV/AIDS Coalition
Northwest Coalition for AIDS Treatment in Africa
NYC AIDS Housing Network
OneDiaspora Project
Peace & Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ
Planned Parenthood of Central and South West Florida
Positives For Positives
Project Care Agency, South Carolina, USA
Project Inform
Queers For Racial & Economic Justice
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Seattle Treatment Education Project
Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont, North Carolina
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia-Leadership Team
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia-Evangelical Life Services Committee
Southern Africa Committee, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
Student Global AIDS Campaign-Tulane Medical School Chapter
Students for Global Public Health
Tulsa Center for AIDS, Resources, Education, and Support
UKIMWI Orphans Assistance
Village Mission Services & Restoration Project Intl, Florida & Haiti
Voice of Freedom, Florida
Washington State Africa Network
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia
Wyoming: Positives For Positives
Yale AIDS Network
International Organizations
Acción Solidaria, Caracas - Venezuela
ACT UP/Paris
Agua Buena Human Rights Association, Costa Rica
AIDES International Actions, France
Association Lagme Yensgo, Burkina Faso
Association Marocaine de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco
Association of People with AIDS in Kenya
Australian Bisexual Network, Brisbane, Australia
Babcock University, Lagos, Nigeria
Bolivian Committee for Consumer's Rights Protection
Cameroon Baptist Convention
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
CARE Thailand
Central Statistics Office, Botswana
Chisomo Children's Club, Malawi
Christian AIDS Bureau, South Africa
Development Aid from People to People, Zambia
Drug Study Group, Thailand
ETC-Ecoculture, The Netherlands
Freedom Foundation, India
Foundation for Nature and Life, Bolivia
Health and Development Foundation, Thailand
Health Rights Action Group, Uganda
Hospice Africa, Uganda
Human Development Centre,Thailand
International Lesbian and Gay Association, Belgium
Jerusalem AIDS Project, Israel
Kenya AIDS Intervention/Prevention Project Group, Kenya
Kenya Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines, Kenya
Liberal Association for the Movement of People, India
Lilongwe Diocese - Catholic Church, Malawi
Malawi Economic Justice Network
Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organisations
No Limit for Women Project, Cameroon
Organization of Development Program for the Underprivileged, Bangladesh
Population Concern, United Kingdom
Postive Action Foundation Philippines, Inc
Rabeya Hai Welfare Trust, Bangladesh
Raks Thai Foundation
Renaissance Santé Bouaké, Côte D'Ivoire
Selian Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania
Society For The Advancement of Women, Malawi
Society For Women and Aids in Africa, Africa Regional
Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya
Southern African Network of AIDS Service Organisations
The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda, Kampala
The Grail, South Africa
Women's Treatment Action Group, Uganda
World Vision Zimbabwe
Youth Net and Counseling, Malawi
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Heather Nolan
AIDS and Health Care Working Group of the Advocacy Network for Africa
c/o Church World Service
100 Maryland Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20003
202-544-2350
heathern@ncccusa.org
Dr. Paul Zeitz
Executive Director, Global AIDS Alliance
Box 820
Bethesda MD 20827-0820
tel: 301-765-2046
cell: 267-254-5857
pzeitz@globalaidsalliance.org
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