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Calls to Action

National AIDS Strategy: A Call to Action (Regularly Updated)
From National AIDS Strategy
White House Releases Dates for HIV/AIDS Community Discussions Throughout U.S. (November 16, 2009)
Speak out at a discussion in your area and be part of developing a national HIV/AIDS strategy.
From The Body
Alert: Don't Let Dems Wimp Out on Opposing Abstinence-Only Funding (October 30, 2009)
From AIDS Healthcare Foundation
U.S. Territories Separate and Unequal in Health Care Reform; How You Can Help (October 28, 2009)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Demand Withdrawal of Proposed Legislation in Uganda Expanding LGBT Sanctions, Including DEATH PENALTY! (October 21, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Action Alert: Tell Congress to Cut Abstinence-Only Funding! (October 14, 2009)
From Housing Works
Can't Make It to a White House HIV/AIDS Community Discussion? Provide Your Testimony Online for the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy! (October 6, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Equality to End AIDS: HIV/AIDS Rally and Vigil This Saturday Answers White House Call to Action (October 5, 2009)
"Young LGBT people attending the National Equality March need to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS," says Cleve Jones.
From Housing Works
Join an Oct. 7 Conference Call -- Share Your Ideas for Making the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy Work for Women (October 5, 2009)
From Positive Women's Network USA
Urge President Obama to Lift the Ban on Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs (October 2, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
ADAP Coverage Struggling in Many States, Leaving Many HIVers in the Lurch: A Blog Entry by Myles Helfand (October 1, 2009)
From The Body
Learn How to Participate in the White House's HIV/AIDS Community Discussions on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (September 16, 2009)
From Campaign to End AIDS
Tell Sen. Majority Leader Reid to Take Action on Syringe Exchange (September 15, 2009)
From Unshackle
Action Alert: Easy Steps to Impact U.S. HIV/AIDS Policy! (August 20, 2009)
Sign petitions in support of a public health plan, syringe exchange ban repeal and RW reauthorization.
From Housing Works
Call Assembly Speaker Silver: Stop the HASA Rent Crisis -- New Yorkers With HIV/AIDS Need Affordable Housing! (August 19, 2009)
From New York City AIDS Housing Network
Petition for a Robust National Public Health Care Option and Expansion and Enhancement of Medicaid Coverage (August 5, 2009)
From Treatment Access Expansion Project
Ensure Congress Has a National AIDS Strategy (2009)
From AIDS Action
Support Early Treatment for HIV (2009)
From AIDS Action
Redial! (July 22, 2009)
This week's Ryan White and Needle Exchange Funding Action Alerts are still in effect.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Help Get Health Care Reform Back on Track (July 21, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Twelve Weeks and Counting: Extend Ryan White Now! (July 9, 2009)
From San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Sound the Alarm: HIV Is Not in Recession (July 7, 2009)
From Housing Works
Take a Survey Addressing the Vocational Needs of HIV-Positive People (June 24, 2009)
From National Working Positive Coalition
Tell Congress to Make Health Care Reform Work for People With HIV/AIDS! (June 19, 2009)
From Treatment Action Group
Tell Abbott That We Will Not Accept a High Price for Their New Norvir! (June 8, 2009)
From Fair Pricing Coalition
Tell CVS: Don't Restrict Access to Condoms! (May 20, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Building a Unified and Effective Movement for HIV Prevention in the United States (May 15, 2009)
Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), AIDS Foundation of Chicago and SisterLove invite you to our second 2009 National Call for the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance.
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
AIDS Housing Now! (May 14, 2009)
Endorse the International Declaration on Poverty, Homelessness and HIV/AIDS.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Speak Out Against the Syringe Funding Ban! (May 12, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Take Action Today! (April 27, 2009)
Demand Congress to count LGBT people to end AIDS.
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
What Are You Waiting For? (April 23, 2009)
Rally in D.C. Monday to kick off AIDSWatch 2009!
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Write Letter to President Obama to Support the Action Plan for Rapid Scale-Up of Routine, Voluntary Testing (April 2009)
From HIV Medicine Association
Action Alert: Tell Your Senator to Co-Sponsor ETHA! (April 16, 2009)
Schumer and Gillibrand are in; more cosponsors needed.
From Housing Works
Sign Up for AIDS Housing Summit! (April 16, 2009)
Register early for the Housing Research Summit featuring Jeffrey Crowley and Stephen Lewis.
From Housing Works
Survey on Employment and Vocational Needs of HIV-Positive Women (April 16, 2009)
From Positive Women's Network USA
Registration Now Open for AIDSWatch 2009!!! (April 9, 2009)
From National Association of People With AIDS
Syringe Exchange National Call-in Day -- April 2, 2009 (April 2, 2009)
Call your representative and the White House! We need thousands of phone calls to get our message heard.
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Buy Lip Butter and Help Prevent AIDS (March 31, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
AHF Meets With WHO & UNAIDS, Urges Swift Action on Access to AIDS Treatment, Testing and Condoms (March 27, 2009)
International delegation, led by new AHF chief of global affairs Jorge Saavedra M.D., presents letters signed by hundreds of medical providers, AIDS activists seeking change in guidelines to raise treatment initiation threshold for all and recommend full-course therapy for all HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women.
From AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Register Now for AIDSWatch 2009: March on Washington April 27-29! (March 25, 2009)
You can register for AIDSWatch online, or download a registration form (PDF) and mail it in (or print out copies for others to fill out).
From National Association of People With AIDS
Give Our Youth the Facts! (March 19, 2009)
Tell your senator to co-sponsor the REAL act.
From Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Sign Up Now for AIDS Housing Summit June 3-5 in D.C.! (March 19, 2009)
Former UN official Steven Lewis will be lead speaker; scholarship applications due March 26.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
ART Initiation at <350 -- Call on WHO and UNAIDS to Save Lives! (March 4, 2009)
From AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Open Letter to the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference Co-Chairs (February 11, 2009)
From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Tell President Obama: No More Money for Ineffective Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs; Fund Comprehensive Sex Education (February 11, 2009)
From USA Positive Women's Network
Action Alert: Sign On to Include LGBT Health in Obama's Health Care Reforms! (February 10, 2009)
Sign on to principles by February 20!
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Action Alert: Tell Obama to Lift the Federal Ban on Syringe Exchange! (February 3, 2009)
From Housing Works
Stimulus Package AIDS Funding Threatened in Congress (February 2, 2009)
From Black AIDS Institute
Abbott Drug Pricing Condemned by AIDS Advocates in International Protests (January 27, 2009)
In coordinated actions, protesters in Mexico, Colombia and the U.S. demand that Abbott lowers the price of its key AIDS drug Kaletra; advocates otherwise vow to seek compulsory licenses in Colombia and Mexico; in U.S., AHF to also premiere 60-second video parody blasting Abbott and CEO Miles White on YouTube and place spot as TV commercial on select Chicago-area television stations.
From AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Congratulate Obama ... (January 19, 2009)
... And remind him of his commitment to a National AIDS Strategy!
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Do You Think Reconstructive Treatments for Facial Wasting Should Be Covered by Medicaid? (January 16, 2009)
Add your own personal experience as a patient or as a clinician. The deadline is Feb 16.
From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
AIDS Criminals (January 15, 2009)
What to know about arrests in Iran, Senegal; what you can do to help.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Join the Youth Action Institute 2009 (January 15, 2009)
From Campaign to End AIDS
"Where's the Cure?" Campaign: Submit Your Photo, Add Your Voice! (Dec - Jan 2008)
Display the words "Where's the cure?" in a creative way, take a photo of your message and add it to the online gallery before Jan. 31, 2009.
From amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Bid on Celebrity Memorabilia at LIFEbeat's 4th Annual Auction (December 2008)
The auction, which takes place on eBay until Dec. 11, features hundreds of rare and autographed items from stars in film, music, sports, television and theatre.
From eBay
Getting the NAHC of It (July 11, 2008)
Become a card-carrying member of the National AIDS Housing Coalition!
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
New Activists in New Mexico (July 3, 2008)
Outstanding youth gather in Albuquerque for hardcore advocacy training.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Four Minutes to Save the World (May/June 2008)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Planning to End AIDS (May 2, 2008)
AIDSWatch highlights need for national AIDS strategy.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
The Sydney Declaration: Good Research Drives Good Policy and Programming -- A Call to Scale Up Research (July 2007)
Includes a sign-on petition for people who support the declaration, which calls for all HIV programs globally to devote 10% of their budget to research.
From International AIDS Society
The Wholistic Picture: Response Ability (July/August 2006)
Sue Saltmarsh urges people with HIV never to simply accept it when they're wronged, whether it's by their politicians, their doctors or the prejudices of society.
To read PDF, click here
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network

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