March 29, 2022|Funding the FightBiden’s PEPFAR Funding Cuts Put People with HIV at Greater RiskPresident Biden’s FY23 budget proposal includes a $20 million cut to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and a $5 million cut to UNAIDS along with other budget actions that result in an overall funding cut to existing…
March 14, 2022|Funding the FightSTARVING BILATERAL AIDS PROGRAMS OF LIFE-SAVING FUNDING INCREASES HARMS FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL HIV AND COVID-19Diminishing PEPFAR’s Role in the COVID Response is a Grave Misstep The Omnibus spending bill for FY22 released by congressional appropriators proposes flat funding for the U.S. bilateral AIDS program (PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a decision…
June 28, 2021|Funding the FightHouse Appropriations Subcommittee Budget Proposal Provides Just 20% of Funding Increase Needed to End AIDS by 2030A Decade of Chronic Underfunding and COVID-19 Pandemic Mean a Minimum $750 million Increase is Needed to Put the US Global HIV Response Back on Track The House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) tonight…
May 28, 2021|Funding the FightBy Flat Funding Global AIDS, Biden’s Budget Undermines Global Progress to Defeat AIDS and Weakens the COVID-19 ResponseIn response to the release today of Biden’s proposed FY22 budget to Congress, Matthew Rose, Director of U.S. Policy and Advocacy at Health GAP, said: “President Biden’s first detailed budget displays a lack of bold leadership motivated to end…
April 9, 2021|Funding the FightBiden’s First Budget Won’t Put the World on Track to End AIDSFollowing the release of the outline of President Joseph R. Biden’s first budget, Matthew Rose, Director of U.S. Policy and Advocacy, Health GAP, said: “After years of neglect during the Trump and Obama years, President Biden’s proposed global health budget…
July 24, 2020|Funding the FightCongress’ COVID-19 Response to African Countries: “Dig more graves.”Congress’ COVID-19 Response to African Countries: “Dig more graves.” $20 billion in Emergency Funding is Needed to Respond to COVID-19 and HIV Pandemics; Current Funding Proposals Fall Dangerously Short As South Africa – the African country with the largest COVID-19…
July 17, 2020|Funding the FightBiden Campaign Holds “HIV/AIDS Solidarity Event” While People With HIV Demand: Where is Biden’s Plan for Ending AIDS As a Global Public Health Threat?Health GAP released the following statement from Jason Walker, Senior Coordinator for Grassroots Advocacy: “Later today, the Biden campaign will hold an ‘HIV/AIDS solidarity event,’ hosted by LGBTQ+ for Biden. But people with HIV around the world need more than…
April 16, 2020|Access to Medicines, Funding the Fight, Health JusticeGlobal Health Organizations Denounce Trump’s Decision to Pull Commitments to WHO during COVID-19 PandemicAVAC, Health GAP, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), and Treatment Action Group (TAG) strongly condemn the Trump Administration’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of the urgent COVID-19 global health crisis. “In a time…
March 24, 2020|Funding the FightHealth GAP Fact Checks Trump’s Global AIDS Remarks During COVID-19 Taskforce BriefingHealth GAP Fact Checks Trump’s Global AIDS Remarks During COVID-19 Taskforce Briefing Context: On Sunday evening, President Trump suggested that he had rejected calls from some in his administration to cut funding for fighting global AIDS , saying, in part,…
February 10, 2020|Funding the FightIntent on Harming People Living with HIV, Pres. Trump Proposes Even Deeper Cuts to U.S. Bilateral AIDS Program PEPFAR(Washington, DC) --- AIDS activists today rejected President Trump’s FY 2021 budget request, which calls for even deeper cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the major bilateral funding program for the global AIDS response, than Trump…