The AIDS Policy Project

The AIDS Policy Project is a new group of experienced U.S. advocates, strategists, and people with AIDS on both the East and West Coasts. We are spearheading an effort to keep AIDS in the public eye and a high funding priority for our legislators through strategic organizing, direct action, and media work. Our members have, on average, ten years of experience each as successful AIDS, gay rights, and poverty activists and organizers.

Our Goals

• To secure funding to treat people with AIDS now—in 2006. More than six million people died in 2003 and 2004 without treatment.
• To boost prospects and leverage cash for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria –more money, more technical assistance for developing nations, and to push the Fund to be more ambitious for itself regarding its budgetary and programmatic goals. The Global Fund is the best mechanism to provide AIDS treatment and care internationally for at least the next two years, if it is properly funded and administered.
• To demand visible leadership on AIDS from our allies in Congress.
• To do fresh, high-profile press work that reframes global AIDS funding issues for the American public.
• To provide a forum where activists can share, brainstorm, and borrow ideas for their work. The AIDS movement has generated brilliant strategies and tactics; we intend to preserve them and encourage new ones.
• To help new groups build skills and an understanding of grassroots political strategy.
• We are recruiting. For more information, contact techdassie@yahoo.com