http://www.one.org/blog/2008/07/15/obama-ill-double-our-foreign-assistance/ The Campaign to Make Poverty History Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:35:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/07/15/obama-ill-double-our-foreign-assistance/#comment-547660 Toni Johnson Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:49:46 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/07/15/obama-ill-double-our-foreign-assistance/#comment-547660 I think ONE and PEPFAR are amazing organizations. That America gives so much assistance to foreign countries is very commendable and I think it should continue. However, as the Director of an AIDS Service Organization in America, I have to say that I am outraged by our governments lack of funding for AIDS in America. PWA's are dying because of wait lists for medications in their individual states. In America AIDS prevention is funded on the federal level, treatment is funded, but not fully, hence the implemented wait lists in many states, and services for people with AIDS is not funded at all. AIDS in America is still seen by most as a moral disease not an infectious one. This needs to change! I think ONE and PEPFAR are amazing organizations. That America gives so much assistance to foreign countries is very commendable and I think it should continue. However, as the Director of an AIDS Service Organization in America, I have to say that I am outraged by our governments lack of funding for AIDS in America. PWA’s are dying because of wait lists for medications in their individual states. In America AIDS prevention is funded on the federal level, treatment is funded, but not fully, hence the implemented wait lists in many states, and services for people with AIDS is not funded at all. AIDS in America is still seen by most as a moral disease not an infectious one. This needs to change!

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