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…
February 5, 2020|Access to Medicines, Funding the Fight, Health JusticeStatement in Response to President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union AddressOn Ending the AIDS Epidemic: “President Trump took a victory lap tonight for his year-old plan to end the domestic HIV epidemic, but his record deserves no praise. Three years into the job, Trump still has not articulated a plan…
November 26, 2019|Funding the FightWorld AIDS Day 2019: AIDS Activists Demand Increased Funding for Life-Saving HIV Programs(White Plains, New York) –– Ahead of World AIDS Day 2019, people living with HIV, doctors, and low-income New Yorkers from New York City, Yonkers, Westchester, and Albany arrived unannounced at the local office of Rep. Nita Lowey, the chairperson…
August 9, 2019|Funding the FightAIDS Activists Call on Lawmakers to Reject Trump’s Unconscionable Attack on Foreign AidThe White House is attempting to slash as much as $4 billion in funding for global health, contributions to international organizations, and other development assistance programs that has already been appropriated by Congress for the current U.S. fiscal year. “Even…
July 16, 2019|Funding the FightNew UNAIDS Report Shows Backsliding and Broken Promises in the Global AIDS Response(Eshowe, South Africa)—UNAIDS released new data regarding the state of the global AIDS response today, showing that the global target of reducing both new HIV infections and AIDS deaths to 500,000 by 2020 will not be met without an aggressive…
June 19, 2019|Funding the FightHouse of Representatives Repeals Dangerous “Global Gag Rule” But Fails to Provide Life-saving Funding Increase for Bilateral Global AIDS Program in FY 20 Spending BillAdvocates call on the Senate to Turn Away from 8 Years of Devastating PEPFAR Flat Funding and to retain the House’s Historic Repeal of Dangerous “Global Gag Rule” (Washington, DC)--In reaction to the passage by the House of Representatives of…
