243 Organizations Call for Urgent Action by President W. Bush and Congress to Fully Fund the Fight Against AIDS

[Guest guest]

March 21, 2002

243 Organizations Call for Urgent Action by President W. Bush and Congress to Fully Fund the Fight Against AIDS

Dear Member of Congress:

Our organizations are humanitarian, religious, and other groups committed to a full-scale effort to stop the global AIDS pandemic and its related causes, particularly in the impoverished regions of the world, which have been the hardest hit by the AIDS crisis. Because of the unprecedented impact of the crisis, we call on President W. Bush and the US Congress to provide $2.5 billion in FY 2003 resources to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and to bilateral AIDS programs.

Without bold investment now, projections are that 100 million people will become infected by 2007. The AIDS pandemic and its related causes in Africa, Asia and elsewhere threaten to destabilize nations and undermine global security. We believe taking immediate action to ensure adequate resources to combat AIDS, TB, and Malaria is one of the best ways the US can exert leadership in a troubled world.

Respectfully,

US National/Global Organizations:

Adventist Development and Relief Agency

Africa Action

Africa Faith & Justice Network

Africa Society of the National Summit for Africa

African Immigranrts & Refugees Foundation

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

American Friends Service Committee

American Jewish Congress

American Jewish World Service

American Red Cross

Anir Foundation

Ark Foundation of Africa

Artists Against AIDS Worldwide

Artists for a New South Africa

Calvert Asset Management Company

Center for Health and Gender Equity

Central Conference of American Rabbis

ative Baptist Fellowship

Conference of Major Superiors of Men

Constituency for Africa

Council of Religious AIDS Networks

DIGNITY/USA National AIDS Projects

Disciples Advocacy Washington Network

Doctors of the World, USA

Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Episcopal Church, USA

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Federation of Temple Sisterhoods

Forefront: A Global Network of Human Rights Defenders

Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa

Foundation for Social & Behavioral Research On Health

Freedom from Hunger

Global AIDS Action Network

Global AIDS Alliance

Global Exchange

Global Immunity

Global Partnerships for Excellence in Education, Research, and Service

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Health GAP Coalition

HIV/AIDS-TB-Malaria Wkg Group, Interfaith Ctr on Corporate Responsibility

Hope for African Children Initiative

Hunger Project

International Network for Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame

Snow, Inc

Jubilee USA Network

Lutheran AIDS Network

Lutheran World Relief

Malawi Washington Association

Management Sciences for Health

Medical Mission Sisters: Alliance for Justice

Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office

Moxie Firecracker Films

Missionary Oblates of Immacuate

NAACP

National Association of Black Social Workers

National Minority AIDS Council

NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

Operation USA

Orphans and Vulnerable Children's Task Force

Oxfam

Pact

Pan-African Charismatic Evangelical Congress

Partners in Health

Pathfinder International

Pearl S Buck International

Pendulum Project

Physicians for Human Rights

Planet Poz

POZ Magazine

Presbyterian Church (USA), Washington Office

Progressive Jewish Alliance

Project Concern International

Public Health Prevention Service, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Quincy Listen Up Foundation

RESULTS

Rock the Vote

Save the Children

Search for a Cure

Society of Missionaries of Africa

Student Global AIDS Campaign

The Futures Group International

Title II Community AIDS National Network

TransAfrica Forum

Treatment Action Group

Trillium Asset Management

Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Unitarian Universalist Association

United Methodist Board of Church and Society

U.S. Doctors for Africa

Vanguard AllianceVanguard Foundation

Washington Office on Africa

Women of Reform Judaism

World Conference for Religion and Peace

World Education/ Snow Inc.

World Vision

Youth Against AIDS

Youth Empowerment Foundation

US Local/Regional Organizations:

ACT UP/Cleveland

ACT UP/DC

ACT UP/East Bay

ACT UP/New York

ACT UP/Philadelphia

African Services Committee, NY, NY

AIDS Care Ocean State of Providence, Rhode Island

AIDS Foundation of Chicago

AIDS Housing Alliance, San Francisco

AIDS Housing of Washington

Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School

AMASSI Center of South Los Angeles

Berkeley Gray Panthers

Bishop's Task Force on AIDS-Greek Orthodox Diocese of Chicago

Black Coalition on AIDS, San Francisco, CA

Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues

Blue

Boston Global Action Network Africa AIDS Project

Christian Community Health Center, Chicago, Illinois

Comprehensive Health & Community Services, Inc, New Jersey

Detroit Capuchin-Franciscans JPE Office

Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance

Detroit Province Jesuits Social Ministry Office

Elders for Survival

Equal Partners in Faith

Ethiopian Heritage Foundation, California

Florida AIDS Action

Food Not Bombs

Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research

Genesis Healthcare Strategies, California

Groundwork for a Just World

Harvard AIDS Coalition

Health and Human Rights Interest Group, Univ of Mass Medical School

Henry Lee Willis Community Center, Inc., MA

Heterosexual Infected People Support

HIV Action Initiative

Hospice Alliance of Colorado

Hospice of the Florida Suncoast

Hospice of the Western Reserve

International AIDS Empowerment

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Jubilee Colorado

L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America

land Province of the Jesuits

Middle East Children's Alliance

MIT United Trauma Relief

Mobilization Against AIDS International

Mohawk Valley AIDS Information

Network Chair

Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ

National Organization of Women, Philadelphia

North Carolina AIDS Policy Center

North Coast HIV/AIDS Coalition

Northwest Coalition for AIDS Treatment in Africa

NYC AIDS Housing Network

OneDiaspora Project

Peace & Justice Task Force, Rocky

Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice

Planned Parenthood of Central and South West Florida

Positives For Positives

Project Care Agency, South Carolina, USA

Project Inform

Queers For Racial & Economic Justice

San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Seattle Treatment Education Project

Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont, North Carolina

Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia-Leadership Team

Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia-Evangelical Life Services Committee

Southern Africa Committee, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights

Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation

Student Global AIDS Campaign-Tulane Medical School Chapter

Student Global AIDS Campaign- College

Student Global AIDS Campaign-

University of land

Students for Global Public Health

Tulsa Center for AIDS, Resources, Education, and Support

UKIMWI Orphans Assistance

Village Mission Services & Restoration Project Intl, Florida & Haiti

Voice of Freedom, Florida

Washington State Africa Network

Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia

Women Organized to Respond to Life Threatening Diseases, California

Vermont Committee for AIDS Resources, Education and Services

Wyoming: Positives For Positives

Yale AIDS Network

International Organizations

Acción Solidaria, Caracas - Venezuela

ACT UP/Paris

Agua Buena Human Rights Association, Costa Rica

AIDES International Actions, France

Association Lagme Yensgo, Burkina Faso

Association Marocaine de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco

Association of People with AIDS in Kenya

Australian Bisexual Network, Australia

Babcock University, Lagos, Nigeria

Bolivian Committee for Consumer's Rights Protection

Cameroon Baptist Convention

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Canadian Treatment Action Council

CARE Thailand

Central Statistics Office, Botswana

Chisomo Children's Club, Malawi

Christian AIDS Bureau, South Africa

Development Aid from People to People, Zambia

Drug Study Group, Thailand

ETC-Ecoculture, The Netherlands

Ehathi Business Driven Projects, South Africa

Faraja Trust Fund, Tanzania

Freedom Foundation, India

Foundation for Nature and Life, Bolivia

Health and Development Foundation, Thailand

Health Rights Action Group, Uganda

Hospice Africa, Uganda

Human Development Centre,Thailand

International Lesbian and Gay Association, Belgium

S. African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles

Japan Network on Debt & Poverty

Jerusalem AIDS Project, Israel

Kenya AIDS Intervention/Prevention Project Group, Kenya

Kenya Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines, Kenya

Liberal Association for the Movement of People, India

Lilongwe Diocese - Catholic Church, Malawi

Malawi Council of Churches, Malawi

Malawi Economic Justice Network

Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organisations

No Limit for Women Project, Cameroon

Organization of Development Program for the Underprivileged, Bangladesh

Population Concern, United Kingdom

Postive Action Foundation Philippines, Inc

Rabeya Hai Welfare Trust, Bangladesh

Raks Thai Foundation

Renaissance Santé Bouaké, Côte D'Ivoire

Selian Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania

Society For The Advancement of Women, Malawi

Society For Women and AIDS in Africa

Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya

Society for Women and AIDS in Malawi

Society for Women and AIDS in Mali

Southern African Network of AIDS Service Organisations

The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda, Kampala

The Grail, South Africa

Women's Treatment Action Group, Uganda

World Vision Zimbabwe

Youth Empowerment Foundation, Nigeria

Youth Net and Counseling, Malawi

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Nolan

AIDS and Health Care Working Group of the Advocacy Network for Africa

c/o Church World Service

100 land Ave., NE

Washington, DC 20003

202-544-2350

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Dr. Zeitz

Executive Director

Global AIDS Alliance

Box 820

Bethesda MD 20827-0820

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