The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) passed More… a resolution last week that calls for an end to federal and state HIV-specific criminal laws and prosecutions.
On World AIDS Day, President Barack Obama declared that America is on its way to defeating the global pandemic known as the AIDS virus. At an online conference Thursday, the President announced more funding ($50 million more) for HIV/AIDS treatment in the U.S. and a higher target goal for how many Americans will be on treatment by 2013 (6 million people). And while HIV patients and advocates welcome efforts to fight and treat the disease on a large scale, many agree that at the state and local levels, serious problems with treatment programs and the criminalization of HIV-positive individuals often go unaddressed. More …
President Obama announced today that $50 million in additional funds will be going toward treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
Obama said during “The Beginning of the End of AIDS,” an online conference organized by ONE International More…, “a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that
Gov. Rick Scott extended(PDF) “greetings and best wishes to all those observing” World AIDS Day today, while organizations in Florida and the U.S. are calling for action against the problems people living with HIV/AIDS are facing. More …
The U.S. Department of Justice issued letters to the attorneys general of all 50 states as well as U.S. territories in hopes of ending the exclusion of individuals with HIV and AIDS, covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, from occupational training and state licensing.
The ADA provides federal civil More…
A coalition of over 80 HIV/AIDS service organizations have sent a letter to Congress seeking increased funding for HIV prevention and care programming in the country.
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The letter, delivered to top Obama White House officials as well as members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees, calls for millions of
More…LANSING — The Michigan Department of Community Health has failed to fulfill a promise of a new policy addressing the use of anti-retroviral medications to prevent new infections of HIV.
LANSING — The Obama administration on Tuesday released the nation’s first National HIV/AIDS Strategy More… (NHAS). That strategy includes a call for state lawmakers to pass legislation preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
