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MAY 31st: Demand World Action on HIV & AIDS!
RALLY AND MARCH at the UN General Assembly
Special Session on AIDS (UNGASS)
www.ungassaction.org/events.html
In 2001, world leaders gathered at the UN committed to fight
AIDS...
It is now 5 years since they met. 15 million people are dead
from AIDS. And there are 25 million new HIV infections.
From May 31 — June 2, 2006, world leaders will meet again at the
United Nations to claim they are committed to stopping AIDS.
JOIN WITH ACTIVISTS FROM RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK CITY AND FROM
ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO DEMAND ACTION, NOT EMPTY PROMISES!
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MARCH & Rally * Wednesday, May 31
12:30pm at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza
(47th Street between 1st and 2nd Aves)
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Our Basic Demands:
- Ensure that no one has to be on a waitlist for AIDS treatment
in the U.S. AND facilitate universal access to treatment by
eliminating barriers to the use of cheaper, generic equivalents
of ARVs globally.
- Significantly reduce the number of new infections in
marginalized communities in the U.S. AND throughout the world,
by promoting gender-sensitive reproductive health services,
ending the federal needle exchange ban, and promoting
science-based prevention methods including condom use and
comprehensive sex education over abstinence-only approaches.
- Provide adequate health insurance coverage for all PLWHAs in
the U.S., AND fund and support initiatives for strong, local
health systems in communities abroad.
- Fully fund, at levels called for by civil society, a
comprehensive Ryan White Care Act, AND multilateral HIV/AIDS
efforts, like the Global Fund for AIDS, TB & Malaria, to promote
efficient, sustainable HIV/AIDS programs.
For more information about the coalition's activities, check
their website at
www.ungassaction.org. For more information,
please visit the GMHC Action Center:
http://www.gmhc.org/policy.html.
In Solidarity,
The Sponsoring Coalition:
- ACTUP - New York
- ACTUP - Philadelphia
- African Services Committee
- American Jewish World Service
- Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
- Friends of TAC - North America
- Gay Men's Health Crisis
- Health GAP (Global Access Project)
- Housing Works
- New York City AIDS Housing Network
- Positive Health Project
- Student Global AIDS Campaign
Endorsers:
ACT UP East Bay - USA Agua Buena Human Rights Assocation - Costa Rica Africa Action
- USA AIDS Foundation of Chicago - USA American Medical Student Association - USA AMSA,
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Chapter - USA AREA (American Run to End AIDS)
- USA Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers - Thailand Association de Lutte Contre le Sida
- Morocco AXIOS Eastern Orthodox Christian AIDS ministry - USA Beijing AIZHIXING Institute
- China Blueprint for Action on Women and HIV/AIDS - Canada Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
- Canada Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) - USA Difaem - German Institute for
Medical Mission - Germany EATG, European AIDS Treatment Group - Belgium End AIDS Now! - USA,
Denmark, France GAT, Grupo Português de Activistas sobre Tratamentos de VIH/SIDA - Portugal,
Gestos- Soropositivity, Communication and Gender - Brazil Global AIDS Alliance - USA Global
Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) - Netherlands Global Network of Sex Work Projects
- Hong Kong HEAL Foundation - Sri Lanka Hispanosida - Spain International Council of AIDS
Service Organisations (ICASO) - Canada Italian League for Fighting AIDS - Italy KAIPPG
International - USA Kenya AIDS Intervention Prevention Project Group (KAIPPG) - Kenya
Lanka+ - Sri Lanka Middle East Children's Alliance USA - Organization For Good Life
of the Marginalized (OGLM) - Uganda Persia+ - Iran PONY (Prostitutes of New York) - USA
Positive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy Group (MTAAG+) - Malaysia Queers for Economic
Justice - USA Solidarity & Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII) - India The
Well Project - USA World AIDS Campaign - Netherlands
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