MAY 31st: Demand World Action on HIV & AIDS!

RALLY AND MARCH at the UN General Assembly Special
Session on AIDS (UNGASS)

www.ungassaction.org

In 2001, world leaders gathered at the UN committed to
fight AIDS...

It is now 5 years since they met. 15 million people
are dead from AIDS. And there are 25 million new HIV
infections.

From May 31 - June 2, 2006, world leaders will meet
again at the United Nations to claim they are
committed to stopping AIDS and to hide from their
failures.

JOIN WITH ACTIVISTS FROM RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK CITY
AND FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO DEMAND ACTION, NOT
EMPTY PROMISES!
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MARCH & Rally * Wednesday, May 31
12:30pm at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza
(47th Street between 1st and 2nd Aves)
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*Free Buses available from Philadelphia (meet at 9am
at Broad and Walnut, call 215-386-1981 for more
information)

Our Basic Demands:

1) Ensure that no one has to be on a waitlist for AIDS
treatment in the U.S. AND facilitate universal access
to treatment by eliminating barriers to the use of
cheaper, generic equivalents of ARVs globally.

2) Significantly reduce the number of new infections
in marginalized communities in the U.S. AND throughout
the world, by promoting gender-sensitive reproductive
health services, ending the federal needle exchange
ban, and promoting science-based prevention methods
including condom use and comprehensive sex education
over abstinence-only approaches.

3) Provide adequate health insurance coverage for all
PLWHAs in the U.S., AND fund and support initiatives
for strong, local health systems in communities
abroad.

4) Fully fund, at levels called for by civil society,
a comprehensive Ryan White Care Act, AND multilateral
HIV/AIDS efforts, like the Global Fund for AIDS, to
promote efficient, sustainable HIV/AIDS programs.

For more information about our coalition's activities,
check our website at www.ungassaction.org.

In Solidarity,

The Sponsoring Coalition:
- ACTUP - New York
- ACTUP - Philadelphia
- African Services Committee
- American Jewish World Service
- Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
- Friends of TAC - North America
- Gay Men's Health Crisis
- Health GAP (Global Access Project)
- Housing Works
- New York City AIDS Housing Network
- Positive Health Project
- Student Global AIDS Campaign

Endorsers:
ACT UP East Bay - USA Agua Buena Human Rights
Assocation - Costa Rica Africa Action - USA AIDS
Foundation of Chicago - USA American Medical Student
Association - USA AMSA, New York College of
Osteopathic Medicine Chapter - USA AREA (American Run
to End AIDS) - USA Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
- Thailand Association de Lutte Contre le Sida -
Morocco AXIOS Eastern Orthodox Christian AIDS ministry
- USA Beijing AIZHIXING Institute - China Blueprint
for Action on Women and HIV/AIDS - Canada Canadian
HIV/AIDS Legal Network - Canada Center for Health and
Gender Equity (CHANGE) - USA Difaem - German Institute
for Medical Mission - Germany EATG, European AIDS
Treatment Group - Belgium End AIDS Now! - USA,
Denmark, France GAT, Grupo Português de Activistas
sobre Tratamentos de VIH/SIDA - Portugal, Gestos-
Soropositivity, Communication and Gender - Brazil
Global AIDS Alliance - USA Global Network of People
Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) - Netherlands Global
Network of Sex Work Projects - Hong Kong HEAL
Foundation - Sri Lanka Hispanosida - Spain
International Council of AIDS Service Organisations
(ICASO) - Canada Italian League for Fighting AIDS -
Italy KAIPPG International - USA Kenya AIDS
Intervention Prevention Project Group (KAIPPG) - Kenya
Lanka+ - Sri Lanka Middle East Children's Alliance -
USA
Organization For Good Life of the Marginalized (OGLM)
- Uganda Persia+ - Iran PONY (Prostitutes of New York)
- USA Positive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy
Group (MTAAG+) - Malaysia Queers for Economic Justice
- USA Solidarity & Action Against the HIV Infection in
India (SAATHII) - India The Well Project - USA World
AIDS Campaign - Netherlands

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