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To promote
research into causes, effects, treatment, and prevention
related to HIV/AIDS and to promote health care and other
services for persons with HIV/AIDS. |
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To lessen
the economic hardships on persons with HIV/AIDS. |
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The educate
the public about the nature, effects, treatment, and
prevention of HIV/AIDS. |
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To seek an
effective cure by communicating with public officials, health
practitioners, and other members of the general public and by
proposing more effective public policies and legislation
related to HIV/AIDS and those who are living with
HIV/AIDS. |
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To advocate
for the national/international public policy interests of
those communities, local organizations, and individuals most
heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS. |
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To advocate
for all people living with HIV/AIDS, regardless of mode of
transmission, and all people at risk for
HIV/AIDS. |
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| AIDS Action
Legislative Accomplishments |
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AIDS Action
convinced Vice President Gore to endorse its Reinventing
Medicaid proposal, which would for the first time ensure
access to life-saving drug therapies for low-income men, women
and children living with HIV but have not yet developed
AIDS. |
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AIDS Action
successfully secured the largest single annual increase in
federal Ryan White AIDS funding, the backbone for care,
nutrition and treatment programs. |
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AIDS Action
led the fight for the historic passage of the Work Incentives
Improvement Act, allowing people with disabilities, including
those living with HIV/AIDS, the ability to return to work
without losing health coverage through Medicare and
Medicaid. |
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AIDS Action
was the leading force behind the successful defeat of the near
elimination of AIDS housing programs. AIDS Action transformed
this triumph into increased funding for these
programs. |
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AIDS Action
is the leading advocate on behalf of effective HIV prevention
including comprehensive testing, positive education and
sensible drug abuse programs. |
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AIDS Action
has elevated global AIDS issues to the national stage,
securing increased funding to combat the expanding worldwide
epidemic. |
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AIDS Action
led a successful effort to convince the Social Security
Administration to expand benefits for women with
AIDS. |
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| AIDS Action Other
Programs and Services |
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AIDS
Action’s diverse 20 person staff includes a team of policy
experts with an unmatched reputation for effectiveness and
vigilance, a uniquely aggressive communications department and
a development group that sustains AIDS Action’s award-winning
programs. View the AIDS Action Staff
Members. |
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As the
national voice on AIDS, AIDS Action convenes NORA, the
Washington consortium of 175 national organizations concerned
about AIDS. |
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The Pedro
Zamora Center at AIDS Action is the most renowned national
AIDS youth advocacy program and is staffed by some of the
brightest and most dedicated young people from around the
nation. |
