UUA President Calls for Accountability in AIDS Prevention Policy
November 29, 2006
Saving Lives: A Call for Accountability in President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) Prevention PolicyFaith-based and Secular Organizations Call on Congress to Strike Restrictions from PEPFAR prevention programs and fulfill the theme of “Accountability” on World AIDS Day.
Press release
When: Wednesday, November 29th at 2:15 pm EST
Who: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-9)
Rev. William G. Sinkford,
President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Jodi Jacobson, Executive
Director, Center for Health and Gender Equity Rev. J.P. Heath, ANERELA, South
Africa (invited)
Rachel Stalnaker, International Youth Leadership Council,
Advocates for Youth
What: A teleconference for international and national news media focusing on the failure of U.S. international HIV prevention policy to meet the needs of women and youth; on current legislative efforts to strike the “abstinence-until-marriage” earmark through passage of the Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth (PATHWAY) Act of 2006; and on implications of US policy in light of the UNAIDS report.
This teleconference will be followed on World AIDS Day, December 1, by “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” an event taking place throughout the United States and in Africa. For more information on this event, click here or visit www.pepfarwatch.org/dcevent.
Where: U.S. Toll Free: 1-800-822-4794 confirmation code: 5866224
International: 1-913-981-4912 confirmation code: 5866224
Why: On average, someone is infected with HIV every 8 seconds of every day. The highest rates of new infections are among older adolescents and young adults ages 15 to 24 and among married women in their twenties and thirties. Current prevention policies under PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) fail to address the needs of women and youth and therefore fail to save the greatest number of lives possible. These problems can be remedied through changes in both legislation and policy. This year the theme of World AIDS Day is “Accountability.” Faith-based and secular organizations from across a spectrum join together in demanding accountability of US policy in support of effective and comprehensive HIV prevention programs.
RSVP:To join this call, RSVP to change@genderhealth.org by 4 pm on November 28th.
Co-sponsors: Advocates for Youth; Artists for a New South Africa; Catholics for a Free Choice; Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE); General Board of Church & Society of The United Methodist Church; Health GAP (Global Access Project); National Council of Jewish Women; Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice; Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS); Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
From www.pepfarwatch.org/press.
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Last updated on Friday, March 2, 2007.
