Health GAP SIGN-ON PROPOSAL
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SAVING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES
A Proposal for a US Presidential Global AIDS Initiative
US Presidential leadership is critical to galvanizing concerted global action to address the AIDS crisis. President George W. Bush has taken initial steps to expand US leadership in this critical area. To build on these positive steps, the undersigned organizations appeal to President Bush to use the occasion of his upcoming trip to Africa to propose a new US Presidential AIDS Initiative, taking leadership in a new, global initiative to control the scourge of AIDS, as well as tuberculosis and malaria. This AIDS initiative must consist of new monies and policies that complement existing US-supported programs and are additional to the Millennium Challenge Account. The Initiative should consist of the following essential elements: GOAL: A comprehensive initiative to save families and communities affected by the AIDS crisis, extend the parent-child relationship and secure the future of young people. ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS: I. Ensuring Access to Affordable Medication: -- a commitment to funding and implementing an equitable percentage of a global plan to provide comprehensive treatment including antiretrovirals to three million people with AIDS by 2005. -- support for a limited exception to international patent rules (and in future trade negotiations) to allow the export of a broad range of affordable generic medications to poor countries where such factors as lack of production capacity and insufficient market size inhibit efficient local manufacture. II. Ensuring Prevention Services and Support for Affected Communities: -- provision of medication to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child, as well as treatment to sustain and enhance the quality of life for mothers with AIDS, with a commitment to an appropriate US share of the goal of achieving by 2005, and sustaining thereafter, 80% coverage of the estimated 2 million women with HIV who give birth each year globally. -- a sustained, fair-share US contribution to support an annual global investment in comprehensive HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries, as called for by UNAIDS and supported by Global HIV Prevention Working Group. Such efforts should include effective economic, social, and public health strategies aimed at women and girls. -- support on a global basis for community based care and support services to reach by 2005 80% of children orphaned or left vulnerable by the AIDS pandemic, in accordance with, at a minimum, the UNGASS goals for orphaned and vulnerable children. III. Ensuring Adequate Financial Resources: -- inclusion in the FY04 Budget request of a provision for at least $2.5 billion for implementation of global AIDS programs, as well as additional funds to fight TB and Malaria. At least 50% of this sum should be allocated to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. -- insistence on comprehensive debt cancellation for impoverished nations facing an HIV/AIDS crisis, with support for locally-determined processes to ensure resulting savings are re-channeled to social needs, and so that no such country should spend more than a maximum of 5% of total government revenues from internal sources on debt payments or future loans. Signed, National Organizations ActionAid, USA Advocates for Youth, USA AEGiS, AIDS Education Africa Action, USA Africa AIDS Watch, Inc. Africa Faith & Justice Network, USA AIDS.ORG, USA AIDS Treatment News, USA AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) American Friends Service Committee, USA American Public Health Association (APHA), USA Artists Against AIDS Worldwide, USA Bread for the World, USA Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health, USA Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP), USA Childreach USA Christian Children's Fund, USA Church Women United, USA Citizens Trade Campaign, USA Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, U.S. Province Consumer Project on Technology, USA Episcopal Church USA Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), NY Generation Five, USA Ghana Education Project, USA Global AIDS Action Network, USA Global AIDS Alliance, USA Harambee Africa AIDS Initiative, DC Harm Reduction Coalition, USA Health GAP, USA INTERSECT, USA Isaac Hayes Foundation USA IvoirEspoir (Hope for the Ivory Coast), USA Justice/Peace & Integrity of Creation Office Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Organization (LLEGÓ) Maryknoll AIDS Task Force Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office Mobilization Against AIDS International, USA National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), USA National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), USA National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA), USA National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA National Minority AIDS Council, USA National Organization for Women, USA National Peace Corps Association Nicaragua-US Friendship Office, USA OXFAM America Pact, Inc. USA Pan-African Charismatic Evangelical Congress (PACEC) USA Pan-African Children's Fund (PACF), USA Partners In Health, USA Physicians for Human Rights USA POZ en Español POZ Magazine Presbyterian Church USA Project Inform, USA Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, USA Resources For Survival, USA RESULTS, USA Save a Million Lives Share International USA South Africa Development Fund, USA Student Global AIDS Campaign The Balm In Gilead Inc. USA The Student Campaign for Child Survival, USA Tikkun Community, USA Title II Community AIDS National Network, USA TransAfrica Forum, USA Treatment Action Group, USA UKIMWI Orphans Assistance (UOA), USA Union of American Hebrew Congregations Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, USA United Methodist Church, Board of Church and Society, USA Washington Office on Africa, USA www.sportsfem.com - The Women's Sports Website, USA Local and regional endorsers, USA ACT UP Atlanta ACT UP Cleveland ACT UP East Bay ACT UP New York ACT UP Philadelphia Action AIDS, PA Action Alliance of Senior Citizens, PA African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ/NY African Services Committee, NY AIDS Action Baltimore, MD AIDS Action Baltimore, MD AIDS Foundation of Chicago, IL AIDS Housing Corporation, MA AIDS Law Project, PA AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Service Center, CA AIDS Services of Dallas, TX AIDS Survival Project, GA Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, CT Artists Against AIDS San Francisco Bailey House, NY Behavioral Health Services, Los Angeles, CA Berkeley Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek Boston Global Action Network, Africa AIDS Project California Prevention & Education Project, CA Center for Community Action for Primary Prevention, MD Center for Economic and Social Rights, NY CitiWide Harm Reduction, NY City of Los Angeles AIDS Coordinator's Office, Department on Disability Conscious Contact of New York, Inc. USA Conscious Movements Collective, NY Dane County Religious Committee on Central America, WI Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, CA Ethiopian-American Advocacy Group, CA Florida AIDS Action, FL Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR), NY Georgia Rural Urban Summit, GA Global Exchange, CA Global Hope Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia Harlem Congregation for Community Improvement, NY Harvard AIDS Coalition, MA Hesperian Foundation, CA Heterosexual Infected Persons Support (HIPS), PA Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, CA Housing Works, NY Jerusalem House, PA Jews Against Genocide, NY Justice & Peace Office of the Catholic Theological Union, IL Labor at the Crossroads TV, NY Los Angeles / Orange County Jubilee, CA Maine Speak Out, ME Medilinks, NY Michigan's Persons Living with AIDS Task Force, MI Miriam Immunology Center at Brown University, RI Mormons for Equality and Social Justice, UT National Association of Social Workers (NASW), PA Chapter National Organization of Working Women, TX New York City AIDS Housing Network, NY Northwest Coalition for AIDS Treatment in Africa (NCATA), WA Office of Black Catholic Ministries, Archdiocese of Omaha Pennsylvania Citizens for Consumer Justice, PA People of Color AIDS Foundation, Santa Fe, NM Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, PA Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice, PA Philadelphia Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Philadelphia FIGHT, PA Philadelphia Unemployment Project, PA Queers For Racial & Economic Justice, NY Rutgers Presbyterian Church, NY Sacred Heart Province JPIC office, IL SafeGuards Project, PA San Francisco AIDS Foundation, CA SATELLIFE, MA Save Endangered Wilderness, PA Search For A Cure, MA Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis Province, MO Sisters of the Holy Cross, IN Sisters, Servants of Immaculate Heart of Mary Congregation, MI Test Positive Aware Network, IL The Council on Family Wholeness, Inc., GA UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center United Trauma Relief, Cambridge, MA Whitman-Walker Clinic, DC Women Alive Coalition, CA Women At Risk, CA Women of Color Alliance, ID Women's Health Institute, MA Wyoming Positives For Positives, WY Yale AIDS Network, CT
Global Organizations • NGOs with worldwide reach or working in multiple countries — country HQ is noted.
AIDSETI - AIDS Empowerment & Treatment International
American Jewish World Service, USA
Architecture for Humanity Int’l, UK
Artists for a New South Africa, USA
Asia-Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+), Thailand
Association of Scientists and Physicians of African Descent (ASPAD), USA
Church World Service, USA
Community Health And Information Network (CHAIN), UK
Daughters of Mary and Joseph International, USA
Global Campaign for Microbicides, USA
Global Information Systems, Int’l
Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+), Netherlands
Health and Development Networks (HDN) Thailand
International AIDS Empowerment, USA/Mexico
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, (IAPAC)
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), USA
International Confederation of Midwives, Int’l
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), USA
International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), Belgium
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, UK
International Women's Health Coalition
KAIPPG/International, USA
Latin American and Caribbean Council Of AIDS Services Organizations, Int’l
Lutheran World Relief, USA
MADRE Int’l, USA
Margaret Sanger Center International at Planned Parenthood of New York City, Int’l
Orphans and Vulnerable Children's Task Force, Int’l/USA
Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, USA
The Pendulum Project, USA
Plan International, USA
Sisters of Mercy in Latin America and the Caribbean, Peru/Int’l
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Int’l/USA
Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), USA/India
Southern Africa Network of AIDS Service Organisations, SANASO, Int’l
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, Int’l/UK
World Conference on Religion and Peace, Int’l
Youth Against AIDS (YAA) International, USA
International Organizations
ACT UP Paris, France
Action Humaine Pour Le Developpement Integre Au Senegal (AHDIS), Senegal
Agua Buena Human Rights Association, Costa Rica
AIDS Access Foundation, Thailand
AIDS Law Unit of the Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia
AIDS Widows in Tanzania (AWITA), Tanzania
Asian Business Coalition on AIDS, Thailand
Assemblies Of God Relief And Development Service, Ghana
Association marocaine de Lutte Contre le Sida (ALCS), Morocco
Association of Protestant Churches and Mission in Germany
Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, Australia
Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM), Malawi
Botswana Christian AIDS Intervention Programme (BOCAIP), Botswana
Botswana Christian AIDS Intervention Programme, Botswana
British Columbia Persons With AIDS Society, Canada
Canadian Harm Reduction Network, Canada
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Canada
Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAC)
CARE Thailand
Catholic AIDS Action, Namibia
Center for Social Concern, Malawi
Centre for Global Health Research, Canada
Centre for Health, Education & Development Communication, Lagos. Nigeria.
Centre for International Health, Canada
Chiapas Media Project, Mexico
Community AIDS Network (CAN), South Africa
Community Information Association, Australia
Council of Churches, Namibia
Department of Nursing, Mbarara University, Uganda
Dette Burundaise Paix Et Developpment, Burundi
Drug Study Group, Thailand
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN)
Foundation for Health and Development, Thailand
Freedom Foundation, India
Ghana Youth and Children Project, Ghana
Global Action for Development Against AIDS, Nigeria
Health Services Kanungu District, Uganda
HIV Network of Edmonton Society
Hope Adelaide, Inc. Australia
Hope Africa, Kenya
Hope For Children, Ghana
Indonesian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS
Japan network on Debt & Poverty, Japan
Jesuit AIDS Project, Harare, Zimbabwe.
KAIPPG/Kenya, Mumias, Kenya
Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia
Lila Nazionale Onlus,, Italy
Mercy International Justice Network, Ireland
Middle East Children’s Alliance
Mother Africa And Child Care Org. (Macco), Ghana
Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI)
Namibia Institute of Pathology
Namibia Planned Parenthood Association (NAPPA), Namibia
Namibian Employers' Federation, Namibia
NAPWA Australia
National AIDS Executive Committee (NAEC) of Namibia
Nekotech Center, Ghana
NO LIMIT FOR WOMEN PROJECT, Cameroon
Northern NGOs Coalition on AIDS (NNCA), Thailand
Orphelins - sida-international, France
Partner Against HIV/AIDS (PAHA), Ethiopia
PATSIME EDUTAINMENT TRUST, Zimbabwe
Raks Thai Foundation, Thailand
Renaissance santé Bouaké, Cote d'Ivoire
Rivers of Joy Medical Services, Nigeria
Rural Initiatives Sustainability and Empowerment (RISE), Pakistan
Safe Teenage Child Foundation, ZambiaAIDS-INDIA eFORUM. India
Sisters of the Holy Names Justice Committees, CA Province
Social Pharmacy Research Unit, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Society of Missionaries of Africa, North American Province
Socios En Salud, Peru
Spiritia Foundation, Indonesia
St. Rita Women Group home based care, Kenya
Students Against Global AIDS, Canada
Students' AIDS Awareness Group (SAAG), Ghana
Sudan Council of Churches, Sudan
Sudan Evangelical Mission, Sudan
Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program, PACT Tanzania
Task Force for the Namibia HIV/AIDS Media Campaign
Thai NGO Coalition on AIDS (TNCA), Thailand
Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS, Thailand
The Stones Network Africa, Uganda
Triangle Project, South Africa
Uganda Business Coalition (UBC) on HIV/AIDS
WTO Watch Qld., Australia
Youth AIDS Foundation For Winners (YAFOW), Ghana
Zanmi Lasante, Haiti