Current Action Alerts
Sign the Petition To End Violence by Year-End 2015
The fight to end the global scourge of HIV/AIDS must include a commitment to end violence. As with HIV/AIDS, violence is a human rights catastrophe.
Women and children who experience sexual violence are significantly more likely to be exposed to and test positive for HIV/AIDS. Boys who witness or experience violence are more likely to engage in behavior that increases the risk of HIV and are more likely to become perpetrators of violence as adults. Violence is both a cause and consequence of HIV/AIDS.
That is why the Global AIDS Alliance is calling on the global community to end violence by Dec. 31, 2015. We ask all stakeholders – individuals, governments, multilaterals and civil society advocates – to take a leadership position by signing the petition.
Sign the Petition to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS by Year-End 2015
The Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA) is committed to the universal goal of ending pediatric HIV/AIDS by Dec. 31, 2015. But we cannot do it alone. Your help is vital to the efforts of CEPA and the Global AIDS Alliance to scale-up prevention and treatment services for an additional 300,000 children worldwide. Zero new pediatric HIV infections means ending parent-to-child transmission permanently.
To help us get there by year-end 2015, we ask all stakeholders -- individuals, governments, multilaterals and civil society advocates -- to take a leadership position by signing the petition below. You are acknowledging that every child is important, and that all children deserve to live free of HIV. You are acknowledging that the time to seize this opportunity is now, and that we will not let bottlenecks hinder progress to end pediatric HIV/AIDS.
1.4%
The Senate Appropriations Committee will soon decide how much funding to allocate to International Affairs programs. They can choose to follow the Budget Committee's misguided recommendation, or they can fully fund these vital programs at $58.5 billion. That's just 1.4 percent of the total federal budget. If the International Affairs budget is cut, critical global health, basic education, microcredit and other anti-poverty programs may suffer. This funding is critical for our shared prosperity and security.
A bipartisan group of senators have initiated a
new sign-on letter to assure that International Affairs is fully
funded. The deadline for this letter will come quickly, so write your
senators today and ask them to sign this letter to the leadership of the
Appropriations Committee.
ABCs and 123s
Join Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) in saying this is not acceptable.
Education is a basic human right. Right now, 72 million primary-aged children are not in school and millions more will drop out before grade five because schools are overcrowded, unsafe, poorly equipped, poorly managed and have inadequately trained teachers. According to UNESCO, if current trends continue, 56 million children will still be out of school in 2015. None of these children will be equipped to survive in the 21st century without a quality basic education. We are setting our future up to fail.
1 out of 3
The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) has been introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The bill, which was also introduced in the House and the Senate during the last Congress, has been reintroduced by 25 Senators and by 25 Representatives from both sides of the aisle. We now have a new opportunity to build support for the I-VAWA and make a difference in millions of women's lives.
Violence against women is a human rights violation and a worldwide pandemic - approximately 1 out of every 3 women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime increasing her exposure to HIV/AIDS. The I-VAWA supports innovative approaches to ending violence against women globally by promoting services for survivors, holding perpetrators accountable and challenging public attitudes that condone such violence.