AIDS Policy Project

	The AIDS Policy Project

	Phone: 215-939-7852 \| email: aidspolicyproject@hotmail.com

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"I am not winning the war because I don't think the leaders of the world are engaged enough. I feel angry, I feel distressed, I feel helpless ... to live in a world where we have the means ... to be able to help all these patients, what is lacking is the political will."

—UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on AIDS, November, 2003

Join or start an AIDS organization in your country that works to change the rules about the way people with AIDS are treated. Aizhi Action in China, The AIDS Policy Project, ACT UP Paris, Health GAP, the Thai Drug Users Network, and the Treatment Action Campaign of South Africa are all such groups. We pressure policymakers to save lives around the world. We lobby, we write letters, and many of us demonstrate: we are not silent. We need your help and the help of your friends of all ages and backgrounds. If there is no such group near you, start by organizing a meeting of people with AIDS in your community.

Contact aidspolicyproject@hotmail.com for more information.

Make a tax-deductible contribution to a cutting edge AIDS organization that is working night and day to fight this epidemic and pressure world leaders to provide the money to stop it.

Demand that Bush spend $7.4 billion on global AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria immediately, including at least $1.2 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, a democratic, transparent, barebones system that gets money to the best AIDS programs around the world and makes every penny count.

Demand accountability from other countries that are not paying their fair share in the fight against AIDS. See www.aidspan.org for more information. Demand science-based prevention policies: Condoms work.

Demand ambitious treatment scale ups and the resources
needed to accomplish them. There can be no effective treatment without treatment education.

Demand full cancellation of crushing debts for impoverished nations.

Demand better political leadership from heads of state and international organizations. We cannot win the fight against AIDS with these leaders.

November 27, 2006
Wan Yanhai freed!
Renowned Chinese AIDS advocate Dr. Wan Yanhai, detained by police in
Beijing on Friday, November 24, was released November 27th.

November 25, 2006:
PIONEERING ACTIVIST WAN YANHAI DETAINED BY POLICE IN BEIJING
No word from Wan as of Sunday, November 26 at 12 noon EST
Chinese activists proceeding with caution

Read press release from China Rights Defenders

Aizhi Action in Beijing has released a statement on Dr. Wan's detention; read here

March 28, 2006
HU JIA IS FREE!!
Chinese AIDS Activist Hu Jia, focus of an international campaign, has been freed by the Chinese government.

March 22, 2006:
SOLIDARITY DAY OF ACTION TO FREE HU JIA, OTHER CHINESE ACTIVISTS, HELD IN DC, NYC AND PARIS
Activists Demonstrated, Conducted Hunger Strikes at Chinese Embassies and Consulates, 12:30 pm

Photos of the Actions in DC, NYC and Paris (more photos and updates to come):

PRESS RELEASE

PARIS

WASHINGTON, DC

NEW YORK

MARCH 22, 2006

READ LETTER TO CHINESE PRESIDENT HU: RELEASE HU JIA, OTHER DISSIDENTS

Add Your Name to the Letter.

800,000 people die
every three months.

3.1 million people died of AIDS in 2005 alone.

AIDS killed 570,000 children in 2006.

Each year, the US contributes only a small fraction of the money requested from it by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan when the Global Fund was created in 2001.

As of March, 2006 there is NO money available for the next, sixth round of grants from the Global Fund.