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This is a pivotal time in the history of the AIDS crisis. Until our campaign for a cure, the idea of a cure for AIDS was rarely discussed. Instead, AIDS was described as a "chronic, manageable disease." Try telling that to one of the 22 million Africans now suffering from it. Or the American who died of AIDS-related complications last week.
The AIDS Policy Project is the first non-profit organization to focus on just one thing: A cure for AIDS. A cure for AIDS is at least as important as the next promising AIDS drug, a vaccine, or a microbicide.
A cure could reduce US government AIDS spending by $20 billion or more per year, or by 2/3 of the entire annual budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A cure could save millions of lives.
JOIN US! Help support this work. We need contributors and volunteers. You can help if you live in New York City or Bangalore. We welcome you. Email us at info@aidspolicyproject.org.
We have a plan.
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Philadelphia public radio piece about the AIDS Policy Project featuring playwright Larry Kramer!
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The AIDS Policy Project has put the CURE for AIDS back on the map--Help us finish the job!
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We need $240 million for AIDS cure research, to come out of the leftover budget from the National Center for Research Resources. Can you help?
You can if you plan to be visiting your Congressional offices. Check out our illuminating lobbying fact sheet for volunteer lobbyists.
Read it! Take it along! Talk it up! Leave a copy with your member of Congress! They don't know anything about this stuff. Yet.
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Sign a letter to the Director of the NIH!
urging him to spend $240 MILLION on AIDS CURE research.
GOAL: 500 letters
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Join us to change
the rules about the way people think about the
AIDS pandemic and the way that people with AIDS
are treated. We are re-introducing the word "cure" into
the public discussion about AIDS research. We pressure
policymakers to save lives around the world whether
through medical research or public health policy.
We educate, we lobby, we rally: we are not silent.
We need your help and the help of your friends
and colleagues.
Contact info@aidspolicyproject.org for
information about how to join us.
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AIDS Policy Project
5120 Walton Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19143
tel:+1 215.939.7852
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Gero Hütter, MD, the Berlin physician who performed the historic stem cell transplant in 2007 that has to date functionally cured an American patient with HIV/AIDS, was honored by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and the AIDS Policy Project on the steps of San Francisco City Hall (June, 2010)
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In February, 2010, the AIDS Policy Project hosted the first two open scientific updates on AIDS cure research in at least a decade. Town meetings are now being planned in other cities.
Speakers included:
Romas Geleziunas, PhD
San Francisco HIV researcher
and physician presented an overview of the current state of research into a cure for AIDS and gave a report back from the St. Martin meeting, a recent conference on HIV eradication
David Margolis, MD
Noted researcher in the field of HIV eradication from the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven Deeks, MD
San Francisco HIV researcher
and physician
Rick Loftus, MD
San Francisco HIV physician
Sponsored and Organized by The AIDS Policy Project. The February 4 meeting was co-sponsored by Project Inform.
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