SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday July 24 2012
International AIDS Conference, Washington DC

Join thousands of people living with HIV, activists, advocates, and loved ones in the streets of D.C. to demand that our President be the one to end the AIDS pandemic.

To get involved in organizing or to add your organization as a supporter, join the Campaign To End AIDS.

WHAT YOU CAN DO?

Endorse the mobilization: Click here to endorse the ‘We Can End AIDS’ march & mobilization.

Join As An ‘Anchor Group‘: and help plan one of the fingers of the actions. Email We Can End AIDS to learn more. (Don’t see a piece?- you can create it!)

Travel To DC: Organize a bus trip to D.C, come out of the Convention Center to show leaders in Washington, DC and around the world what a global mobilization looks like!

Plan Local Events to Coincide: Not in Washington DC and too far away for a bus? Plan something locally — we’ll put all the actions together on the website and the media for a powerful day of action.

Click here to view the platform.

We demand a world in which the lives and health of individuals, workers, families and communities are prioritized over ideology and the interests of the wealthy and corporations. But across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe—and right here in the United States and the capital of Washington, DC—this is often not the case. We have the science, the treatments, and the resources to end the HIV epidemic, but not the political will. This must change.

Around the world and across the U.S., millions are waiting in line for AIDS medicines that cost pennies per pill to make—but they go without, due to the lack of political will to ensure affordable generic medications for all. We demand better.

New science and decades of research shows we can halt the pandemic. Condoms, sterile syringes, HIV treatment that prevents transmission, stable housing, microbicides, and more—we can protect our communities. And we can end violence and ensure the rights of LGBT people, women, people of color and members of other marginalized communities. But that doesn’t fill campaign coffers, so we don’t get the funding needed to end AIDS—even though it would save money as well as suffering. We demand better.

Economic injustice fuels the AIDS crisis—but our health and human rights are traded away for tax cuts for billionaires and free trade deals. Our world can afford to fund our health systems, pay our nurses, and ensure housing, food, and education for all. But instead we see the wealthiest failing to pay their fair share. A tiny .005% tax—to fund AIDS and health care in the US and worldwide—is too heavy a burden on the bankers and speculators that rake in billions? Meanwhile, the same Free Trade Agreements that threaten jobs and the earth are trading away our access to affordable generic medicines. We demand better.

When the world comes to Washington, DC in July 2012 for the International AIDS Conference, we will mobilize to fight AIDS and for economic justice! Join people living with HIV and HIV/AIDS organizations, unions, student groups, faith communities, and other activists.