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Hope + Action: Rally in DC Heralds Obama's Promises to Address AIDS
by Vanessa Brocato
Wed, 11/26/2008 - 1:37pm
More than 1,000 people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, their allies and service providers along with leaders in public health and human rights mobilized from the cities with communities trying to heal deadly epidemics, including New York, Philadelphia and our Nation’s PEPFAR-worthy capital. There were also representatives of the deep South, including from the CDC's hometown of Atlanta, struggling to cope with the spread of AIDS and decrepit healthcare systems.
It was the first time in time memorable that AIDS activists rallied in Washington not to risk arrest in demand of human rights but to welcome in a hopeful time and to offer our partnership in delivering the promises made in the Presidential campaigns to create a National AIDS Strategy and fix PEPFAR. Along with plans for this just and long over-due policy agenda, we carried with us the loving, fighting spirits of our community members lost through stigma and official neglect of this disease. We represented the generations of this two-decade crisis and the many facets of our movements to fight it.
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About the HIV PJAThe HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) is a network of organizations advocating for effective and just HIV prevention policies for the United States. We grew out of the successful 2007 Prevention Justice Mobilization, which united hundreds of groups across the country at the intersection of HIV/AIDS, human rights, and struggles for social, racial, gender, and economic justice. The HIV PJA is coordinated by Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) in collaboration with AIDS Foundation of Chicago, and SisterLove.
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