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Posted on October 19, 2010 at 9:48 pm
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Our online shop has your first official sneak peak at Fashion for Action 2010. Save on brands like Marc Jacobs, 7 For All Mankind, Brooks Brothers and more!
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 9:14 pm
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Threatened with Protest, Reid Staffer Meets with Women AIDS Advocates
Faced with the threat of a group of angry women AIDS advocates protesting outside his door on Friday, Sen. Harry Reid sent a staffer to discuss the group’s concerns, forestalling the protest.
The women, who had gathered in Reno for the first Women’s Advocacy Leadership Summit, held Oct. 14 to 17, had planned a loud demonstration outside the senate majority leader’s office, urging him to end the nation’s growing AIDS drug access crisis.
In lieu of the demonstration, Susan Lisagor, a regional representative in the senator’s Reno office, met with 35 women who asked the senator to push Congress to approve $101 million in funds for the country’s struggling AIDS Drug Assistance Programs.
The question now is …
Posted on October 18, 2010 at 4:32 pm
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HASA Agrees to Discuss AIDS Housing Problems; Protesters Deliver Grievances to Doar
Marking the opening of a campaign to get the floundering HIV/AIDS Services Administration to better serve its clients, more than 60 people marched to the administration’s door this morning to deliver their grievances in person.
“The treatment of HASA clients is outrageously poor," said Brian Edwards, 30, who has struggled to access services since becoming a HASA client in May. “They say they are doing job, but it’s an excuse. The people at HASA need to know that we’re no different than them. We’re people, too.”
The campaign is already showing signs of success. Yesterday, in response to pre-march Update reports about disastrous client experiences, recently appointed HASA Deputy Commissioner Jacqueline Dudley called Housing Works and agreed …
Posted on October 14, 2010 at 5:14 pm
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Facing an Impossible Bureaucracy, HASA Clients Speak Out
They knew the eviction notice was coming, but when it did, it hit Richard Huddleston and Nelson Alston like a rock. They owed nearly $3,000 in unpaid rent, according to the letter.
“It was appalling,” said Alston, 49. “Of course I was worried, I’ve seen it happen to so many other people.”
Six years ago Huddleston and Alston turned to the HIV/AIDS Services Administration for help accessing benefits like food stamps and rental assistance. Complications related to AIDS prevented the two from working full-time jobs. What they found, however, was that HASA—responsible for facilitating the benefits process—was so inefficient and error-prone that they would eventually need the support of a legal team to access the services to which they were entitled.
…Posted on October 13, 2010 at 7:20 pm
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Saying Goodbye to Abstinence-Only Funding?
After weeks of work by activists across the nation, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) have introduced a bill that would end almost all federal funding of abstinence-only sex education.
The bill, called the Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2010, would redirect the last major federal funding stream dedicated to abstinence-only programs. Those funds, totaling $50 million a year, would instead go to the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), a comprehensive sex education program.
“I think this is a trend on a couple fronts,” said Sarah Audelo, senior manager of domestic policy at Advocates for Youth, which, as part of a coalition, launched a campaign to get representatives to introduce the bill. “One, we …
Posted on October 12, 2010 at 3:47 pm
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New York State to Make Hefty Payout to Nonprofits, But It’s Too Little, Too Late
New York legislators say they want to save the state money, but the late budget and bureaucratic snags are officially costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After New York failed to pay tens of millions of dollars to AIDS nonprofits this spring and summer—a delay due in part to the late budget finalization—a spokesman at the Department of Health has confirmed that New York will pay three percent interest on those late payments.
This will be a hefty slice of cash (no word from the DOH on exactly how much) coming from taxpayers’ pockets. But the interest will do barely anything for the nonprofits, many of whom took out expensive emergency loans—at rates far higher than three percent—in order to …
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:21 pm
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Obama Administration Global Fund Pledge Falls Short
In a profound disappointment for global AIDS activists, donor countries pledged just $11.7 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Tuesday. That number fell short of the $13 billion needed to simply continue treatment at current levels—and far short of the $20 billion the Fund had requested to meet worldwide treatment goals.
The announcement confirmed activists’ fears that the unparalleled progress against global AIDS made by the Fund since 2002 could be reversed as nations backtrack on funding promises. And in the U.S., many activists believe that Obama is leading the retrenchment from worldwide treatment access.
The Obama administration, “is basically running global AIDS policy into the ground,” said Gregg Gonsalves, a founding member of …
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:18 pm
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