The Collaborative supports the following campaigns and encourages community members to support these efforts.

National AIDS Strategy (www.nationalaidsstrategy.org)

AIDS is a national crisis. The next President of the U.S. should develop a results-oriented AIDS strategy.

The wealthiest nation in the world is failing its own people in responding to the AIDS epidemic at home.  Consider that in the U.S.:

Every year, 56,000 people are newly infected with HIV.  The HIV infection rate has not fallen in 15 years.

Over a million people are living with HIV.  In 2002, an estimated half of people living with HIV/AIDS were not in care.

African Americans represent 13% of the population but nearly half of all new HIV infections.  In 2004, HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of death among black women ages 25 - 34.

The unsatisfactory outcomes from our country’s response to AIDS have serious human and economic costs.  A study published in 2003 found that failure to meet the government’s then goal of reducing HIV infections by half would lead to $18 billion in excess expenses through 2010.

The U.S. must develop what it asks of other nations it supports in combating AIDS: a national strategy to achieve improved and more equitable results.

To be effective, a national AIDS strategy should…

  • Improve prevention and treatment outcomes through reliance on evidence-based programming
  • Set ambitious and credible prevention and treatment targets and require annual reporting on progress towards goals
  • Identify clear priorities for action across federal agencies and assign responsibilities and timelines for follow-through
  • Include, as a primary focus, the prevention and treatment needs of African Americans, other communities of color, gay men of all races, and other groups at elevated risk
  • Address social factors that increase vulnerability to infection
  • Promote a strengthened HIV prevention and treatment research effort
  • Involve many sectors in developing the national strategy: government, business, community, civil rights organizations, faith based groups, researchers, and people living with HIV/AIDS

Please sign on now so your voice can be heard. (www.nationalaidsstrategy.org)