PEPFAR is Working--Lets keep it funded so it can save more lives

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Thursday April 09, 2009 · 2:08 PM PDT

2009/04/09 · 14:08

As I stated last week, PEPFAR is saving millions of lives in Africa right now. As if they could read my mind, Stanford University published a study this week providing the scientific evidence that we've known all along. PEPFAR is doing a decent job of providing AIDS treatment and is directly responsible for saving 1 million Africans. PEPFAR is not doing so well on preventing new HIV infections.

I wonder if Congress and President Obama will listen to the thousands of health professional and students who have called for fully funding PEPFAR II?
I wonder if we can muster the political will it took to pass the Kerry-Lugar Amendment last week again to make sure this lifesaving program is fully-funded?
I wonder if misguided polices based on religous and political ideology had anything to do with poor performance on prevention?

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Thursday April 02, 2009 · 3:45 PM PDT

2009/04/02 · 15:45

A little bit of History was made yesterday(or was it 2 this timezone thing is really messing with me). The Democratic Senate stood up to the Republicans who are swinging at anything they can to sound fiscally conservative. The Senate passed the Kerry-Lugar amendment to restore $4 billion to the Foreign Affairs account. $4 billion may sound like chump change in a post AIG/Citibank US, but it goes a heck of a long way to fight AIDS in Africa, where foreign affairs spending by the US is desperately needed. I am currently in Kampala Uganda with a delegation of US Medical student and have witnessed first hand over the last 4 days the tremendous life saving capacity this funding is having.
More on the flip..

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Tuesday January 06, 2009 · 9:56 AM PST

2009/01/06 · 09:56

Dr. Kamiar Alaei and Dr. Arash Alaei — two prominent Iranian HIV/AIDS physicians imprisoned in Tehran — desperately need your help today.

After being held without charge for 6 months, Arash and Kamiar were subjected to a perfunctory trial last week, and found guilty of communicating with an enemy state, as well as other secret charges the Iranian government refused to reveal.

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Wednesday December 10, 2008 · 5:38 AM PST

2008/12/10 · 05:38

Today is International Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am posting this on behalf of my colleague and Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, Susannah Sirkin.

The nation is emerging from a grim period in history when we reversed decades of advancement in civil and political rights central to American values and our Constitution. In recent weeks President-elect Obama’s transition team has received a flurry of calls and visits from human rights organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights, appealing for "restoration" of US protection and promotion of rights.

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