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Medical professionals and others have an opportunity to get involved in the global AIDS crisis through a new campaign.
By Jennifer Schestok
As health care and medical professionals, you are all too familiar with the complications, issues and stigmas that HIV and AIDS carry. Some of you may have patients with the virus, and luckily Americans have the drugs, education and prevention programs in place to fight and decrease the number of infections.
But what about helping impoverished nations, like those in Africa? Some may say the United States has been down this road before with ?Live Aid? and the ?We Are the World? campaigns in 1985. However, helping the people of Africa is much bigger than a charity or an effort to prevent starvation; it?s about inequality, justice and a global health crisis.
?We really advocate a comprehensive package of debt relief [and] development assistance especially to fight AIDS and fairer trade policies for Africa,? said Erin Chapman, policy director for DATA. The organization is working toward changing international policies and increasing appropriations for Africa. Currently, the United States only contributes between .25 to .5 percent of the federal budget to development assistance. DATA (which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) is hoping the U.S. legislators will increase the amount by one percent, which is very little in total federal spending.
To read the entirety of this article, please visit:
http://www.advanceforaud.com/common/Editorial/Editorial.aspx?CC=36443
To read Interference.com's coverage of the ONE campaign launch, please visit: http://forum.interference.com/t91912.html
Thanks to Debbie K!
Medical professionals and others have an opportunity to get involved in the global AIDS crisis through a new campaign.
By Jennifer Schestok
As health care and medical professionals, you are all too familiar with the complications, issues and stigmas that HIV and AIDS carry. Some of you may have patients with the virus, and luckily Americans have the drugs, education and prevention programs in place to fight and decrease the number of infections.
But what about helping impoverished nations, like those in Africa? Some may say the United States has been down this road before with ?Live Aid? and the ?We Are the World? campaigns in 1985. However, helping the people of Africa is much bigger than a charity or an effort to prevent starvation; it?s about inequality, justice and a global health crisis.
?We really advocate a comprehensive package of debt relief [and] development assistance especially to fight AIDS and fairer trade policies for Africa,? said Erin Chapman, policy director for DATA. The organization is working toward changing international policies and increasing appropriations for Africa. Currently, the United States only contributes between .25 to .5 percent of the federal budget to development assistance. DATA (which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) is hoping the U.S. legislators will increase the amount by one percent, which is very little in total federal spending.
To read the entirety of this article, please visit:
http://www.advanceforaud.com/common/Editorial/Editorial.aspx?CC=36443
To read Interference.com's coverage of the ONE campaign launch, please visit: http://forum.interference.com/t91912.html
Thanks to Debbie K!
