November 7, 2020|COVID-19, Health JusticeStatement on the Election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as U.S. President and Kamala Harris as Vice PresidentJoe Biden and Kamala Harris have been elected to lead the United States at a moment of crisis. Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, America’s worst tendencies domestically and globally have been not just exposed, but thrust into primetime and…
July 8, 2020|Health JusticeGlobal Health and Human Rights Organizations Say U.S. Withdrawal from WHO Is Reckless Act That Could Delay Americans’ Access to COVID-19 Solutions and Prolong Global PandemicAVAC, Health GAP and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) strongly condemn the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). Today’s announcement formalizing the President’s threats from earlier this year is short-sighted and dangerous and will cost more lives and…
July 6, 2020|COVID-19, Health JusticeThis Was Preventable: COVID-19 Collides with Unmet Global AIDS Goals, Creating New Crisis for HIV Positive Adults and ChildrenActivists call for $1.2 billion in increased PEPFAR funding to mitigate life-threatening COVID-19 harms and to accelerate HIV treatment and prevention scale up New global AIDS data published by UNAIDS on the opening day of the 2020 International AIDS Conference indicate…
June 15, 2020|COVID-19, Health JusticeWith COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerating in Africa, Activists Demand Full Reversal of Trump Administration Ban on PPE Purchases for Front-line Healthcare WorkersPlaying Politics with the Coronavirus Response is Costing Lives as New Data Indicate People Living with HIV and TB are at Increased Risk of Dying from COVID-19 As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates exponentially in Africa, the Trump administration’s arbitrary and…
April 30, 2020|Health JusticeUganda’s COVID-19 Response is Terrorizing Women with Arbitrary Detention, Blackmail, and Violence(Kampala) ––The Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC) and other civil society organizations strongly denounced raids, arrests, extortion, and violent attacks during the last 24 hours targeting sex workers, barmaids and other vulnerable communities by police, Local Defense Units (LDUs), and…
April 20, 2020|Health JusticeCivil society response to President Museveni’s directive that pregnant women will no longer be banned from using transport to seek health services during COVID-19 lockdownCivil society response to President Museveni’s directive that pregnant women will no longer be banned from using transport to seek health services during COVID-19 lockdown: The President of Uganda on April 19, 2020, declared during his address to the country…
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…
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…
October 25, 2019|Health JusticeCivil Society Groups Demand Sham Charges Against 16 LGBT Ugandans be DroppedEscalating Violence Against the LGBT Community Must be Condemned by the Government of Uganda (Kampala) Civil society groups in Uganda called on the Government and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to publicly condemn the brutal attacks against LGBT Ugandans,…
August 14, 2019|Health JusticeUNAIDS appoints African feminist leader, Winnie Byanyima, as its next Executive Director(New York, NY)—The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Gutteres, announced today the appointment of Winnie Byanyima as the next Executive Director of the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Byanyima, a Ugandan human rights advocate and former Member of Uganda’s…
