September 24, 2024|Funding the Fight, Health JusticeActivists: World Bank President Ajay Banga Must Stand Up to Discrimination in Uganda Protest at Uganda’s U.N. Permanent Mission, 336 East 45th St, NY, Thurs Sept. 26 9am(Kampala and New York) One year after the World Bank announced there would be no new financing to Uganda after President Museveni signed a draconian new anti-LGBTQ law, called “among the worst in the world,” Bank President Ajay Banga is…
March 13, 2024|Funding the FightPresident Biden’s Global HIV/AIDS Budget Fails to Meet the MomentWith Just 5 Years Left to Defeat AIDS as a Public Health Threat, Flat Funding Doesn’t do Enough to Save the Lives of People Living with HIV President Biden released his Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget request on Monday, detailing…
September 11, 2023|Funding the FightAIDS Activists Arrested at Speaker McCarthy’s Office Protesting Republican Attacks on Global and Domestic AIDS Treatment and Prevention(Washington, DC) Chanting “Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy!,” AIDS activists from Housing Works and Health GAP were arrested outside of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s office protesting political attacks on life-saving HIV prevention and treatment programs in the U.S. and…
July 17, 2023|Funding the Fight, Health JusticeDuring U.S. Trade Ambassador’s Trip to Kenya, Advocates Urge Action on LGBTQI+ RightsDuring pride month, a coalition of leading LGBTQI+, labor, trade, HIV, and human rights groups met with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai to discuss the so-called Family Protection Bill - a copycat of the draconian new anti-LGBTQI+ law in…
February 7, 2023|Funding the FightThe State of the Biden Administration’s Response to Global AIDS: Twenty Years after Bush’s Historic SOTU Launch of PEPFAR, Biden Must Fulfill His Promise to End AIDS in Tonight’s State of the Union FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2023 Contact: Jessica Bassett, jessica@healthgap.org, 929-866-3929 The State of the Biden Administration’s Response to Global AIDS: Twenty Years after Bush’s Historic SOTU Launch of PEPFAR, Biden Must Fulfill His Promise to End AIDS in Tonight’s…
December 1, 2022|Access to Medicines, COVID-19, Funding the Fight, Health Justice, Transparency & AccountabilityFORGOTTEN BUT NOT GONE: On World AIDS Day, People with HIV, Long COVID and ME/CFS Protest Biden’s Pandemics Neglect, Urge Funding from Congress in Demonstration Outside the White HouseDecember 1, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In an unprecedented on-site and virtual World AIDS Day protest, people with HIV united with chronically ill and disabled people with Long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), and others, in a rally today outside the…
September 21, 2022|Funding the FightStatement from Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell on the Seventh Replenishment Conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2022 Statement from Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell on the Seventh Replenishment Conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria “The world was watching for success at today’s seventh replenishment conference…
July 28, 2022|Access to Medicines, Funding the Fight, Health JusticeHealth GAP Statement regarding ViiV – MPP Voluntary Licensing Agreement for CAB-LAFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2022 Health GAP Statement regarding ViiV - MPP Voluntary Licensing Agreement for CAB-LA “Just four months ago, ViiV announced it would not pursue voluntary licensing for CAB-LA to allow generic manufacturing and accessible pricing for…
July 27, 2022|Funding the Fight, Health Justice, Transparency & AccountabilityAs the International AIDS Conference Kicks Off in Montreal, New UNAIDS Global AIDS Update Shows Deadly Backsliding Away From Ending the Pandemic, With AIDS Deaths No Longer DecliningFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2022 As the International AIDS Conference Kicks Off in Montreal, New UNAIDS Global AIDS Update Shows Deadly Backsliding Away From Ending the Pandemic, With AIDS Deaths No Longer Declining Perfect storm rising of pandemic competition,…
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…
