President Obama

In 12 states across America, over 2,200 people are on waiting lists for HIV medications because the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) is deeply under-funded. 

On Tuesday, July 13, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius will announce (finally!) that the Obama administration will partially solve this problem by providing $25 million in emergency funding to states for ADAP.

AIDS Drug Assistance Programs provided medications to over 166,000 individuals in FY2009.  Unfortunately, many ADAPs have put in place barriers to access such as reducing the eligibility, changing the formulary, and closing enrollment. Nearly 1,000 individuals in nine states are on waiting lists to receive their life-saving and life-sustaining medications through the AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP). We need your help to ensure that the Obama Administration takes action to help those in need!

How you can help:

There are two ways you can help.  By the end of the week please call or email (or both) the White House.

Remarks by Gregg Gonsalves of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition delivered at the symposium on HIV Scale-Up and Global Health Systems hosted by Columbia University’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs

NEW YORK (December 1)--For those of you who know me, I am about to say something shocking. I miss George W. Bush.  Well, not really. He was a terrible President in so many ways.  However, he was exceptional in one.  The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, despite its flaws, saved millions of lives around the world.

WASHINGTON (Dec 1)—For World AIDS Day, the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy calls on President Barack Obama to publicly repudiate HIV-related stigma by welcoming community leaders living with HIV/AIDS to a White House summit on efforts to achieve his domestic HIV/AIDS agenda.  

On the One Year Anniversary of the election of President Obama,
there is still:

“Change…” Worth Fighting For!!

On Tuesday, November 3, the first anniversary of the election of President Barack Obama, Chicago leaders will gather in front of Grant Park to rally our support for the “Change” we believe is worth fighting for.

by David Munar & Julie Davids
via RH Reality Check

By David Munar Via LifeLube
On this seemingly ordinary sunny day in our nation’s capital, my partner and I strolled slowly down 16th Street, looking for pockets of shade and commenting on the majestic magnolia trees and fragrant lilacs.