URGENT ACTION ALERT: Act NOW to Defeat Syringe Exchange Amendment!

The following action alert comes to us from our friends at AIDS Action:

Amendment to Ban Federal Syringe Exchange Funding on House Floor

A House amendment to the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill is scheduled for floor debate, and may take place as early as tomorrow morning (July 24). Today, the Rules Committee approved an amendment by Representative Mark Souder (R-IN) which prohibits HHS funding for programs which distribute sterile needles or syringes for hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. If this amendment passes it will almost certainly ban federal funding of syringe exchange in the U.S. and may disrupt current syringe exchange operations. Syringe exchange saves lives!

This pernicious amendment must be defeated NOW!

Take immediate action to prevent the defeat of syringe exchange programs.! Click HERE to E-mail your Representative NOW!

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ACTION ALERT: HIV Travel Ban Repeal

Great news!

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are proposing the removal of HIV infection from the list of diseases that can keep people who are not U.S. citizens from entering the United States.

On Thursday, July 2nd, HHS and the CDC published a notice in the Federal Register that it intends to repeal the HIV travel and immigration ban.

The public now has until August 17th to submit comments and voice support for the proposed change in regulations.

Please take a few minutes to voice your support for the ending of this needless discrimination against people living with HIV!

Click HERE to take action today!

The CDC is welcoming public support for the removal of this ban, and HIV/AIDS advocates around the country are making their voices heard. Stand up and be counted among them!

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ACTION ALERT: Support Nurtition and the Ryan White CARE Act!

Last month in Atlanta, hundreds of AIDS and nutrition advocates joined ANSA (Association of Nutrition Services Agencies) in showing their support for the power of medically appropriate food and nutrition services for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the soon-to-be extended Ryan White program.

Hundreds of advocates from around the country have already signed on to the letter below to be sent to their US Senators and Members of Congress.

Will you join them?

Place your name amongst those who support ANSA's position for inclusion of medically appropriate food and nutrition services as a permissible core medical service!

Click HERE to view this action alert!

But don't stop there!

Please forward this to 4 of your friends and urge them to do the same. We already have incredible support from across the country, but we want everyone in Congress to know how imperative having access to food and nutrition is for PLWHA.

Thank you for all you to do ensure our vulnerable neighbors across the country have access to food, treatment and comfort!

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