Today is World AIDS Day — in 2007 it falls on a Saturday. But next year, the real World AIDS Day will be on Election Day.
AIDSVote.org is a candidate education and voter education project working to make sure candidates for public office know what it takes to end AIDS, and voters who care about ending AIDS know where the candidates stand on our issues.
The AIDSVote.org platform is a straightforward roadmap for our next President — it leads directly to the end of AIDS as a killer pandemic in America and around the world. We've got a ten-point domestic AIDS plan and a ten-point global AIDS plan with clear recommendations for public and private action to save lives, prevent new infections, and address the social conditions that drive the pandemic.
The AIDSVote.org has already been endorsed by dozens of the nation's leading AIDS groups, and by leading service and advocacy organizations in key early-primary states. We're working closely with the 08 Stop AIDS campaign (www.08stopaids.org) to highlight global and domestic AIDS issues in public events with the candidates. We'll be holding national conference calls during 2008 to explain how nonprofit groups can do election-year advocacy that's safe, legal and effective. And we'll be helping voters who care about HIV/AIDS understand the positions of candidates on life-and-death domestic and global AIDS issues.
Please take the time to visit AIDSVote.org, endorse the platform, and spread this message widely. This year World AIDS Day is on a Saturday — next year World AIDS Day will really be on Election Day.
Check out the AIDSVote website here: aidsvote.org.
Full details on the platform are at aidsvote.org/platform.
Endorse the platform here: aidsvote.org/member/register.
2007 PREVENTION JUSTICE MOBILIZATION
HIV is not just a disease.
It's proof positive of injustice!
Please Unite with Us to March & Rally for Prevention Justice!
Tuesday, December 4
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Shining a Light on Gaps in HIV Prevention March & Rally for Prevention Justice Gather across the street from the Hyatt Hotel (corner of Baker St & Peachtree St NE) at Hardy Ivy Park for a peaceful march and spirited rally.
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Prevention Justice Dinner & Strategy Session After the March & Rally, join us for a dinner and session at St. Luke's Church,
435 Peachtree St., NE, 2 1/2 blocks from the Hyatt Hotel
Why Prevention Justice? HIV prevention efforts in the United States have traditionally focused on individual behavior. Yet two individuals from different communities can engage in the same activities but have different levels of risk for HIV. Prevention Justice demands that we increase our resources to understand why certain communities bear a higher burden of HIV while others, even though they have the same levels of "individual risk activity," do not.
Prevention Justice believes that the best way to prevent HIV/AIDS is to ensure that all people have the economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, sexuality, and reproduction for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Prevention Justice means the people and communities most affected by the epidemic are at the forefront of policy efforts, and that HIV prevention cannot be separated from human rights.
We are united in demanding leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS and justice in prevention policies, including:
- More funding for HIV prevention efforts, with universal access to sexual health education, harm reduction and other forms of effective HIV prevention
- Comprehensive efforts to address the root causes of disparities in HIV infection
- Research for a broader range of HIV prevention intervention and tools
- An end to censorship and misinformation in HIV prevention
The independent community blog at the 2007 NHPC needs your voice: www.PreventionJustice.org
Visit us at Booth #324 in the Exhibit Hall or contact Josh Thomas 917-539-7016 josh@champnetwork.org