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 use direct action: 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 about how to organize an AIDS activist group in your community.

May 1, 2009
Hu Jia
Renowned Chinese AIDS and human rights advocate Hu Jia, vilified in the Chinese press but winner of the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights, remains in prison. Hu, who suffers from hepatitis, has been imprisoned for 1 year, 5 months.

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
Organized by the AIDS Policy Project as part of its international campaign to free Hu Jia, activists from dozens of organizations protested simultaneously at Chinese embassies and consulates in Washington, DC, New York, and Paris.

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