{"id":160145,"date":"2022-11-15T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/?post_type=one_press&#038;p=160145"},"modified":"2023-09-05T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:01:07","slug":"faith-leaders-head-to-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"one_press","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/faith-leaders-head-to-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith leaders head to Capitol Hill to urge support for food security, global AIDS fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WASHINGTON\u2013 This week, a group of faith leaders from 25 states will head to Capitol Hill to generate support for programs that help low-income countries fight the growing food, health, and economic crises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a day of meetings on Wednesday, the faith leaders\u2013who are volunteers with the ONE Campaign\u2013will ask lawmakers to supply critically-needed food assistance and reauthorize a key US program to combat HIV\/AIDS globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the new Congress is sworn in in January, incoming and returning lawmakers will face a series of global challenges, each with the potential for widespread human suffering:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As many as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/global-hunger-crisis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">828 million people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> go to bed hungry each night. In Somalia, experiencing historic drought, a child is hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/somalia-famine-child-per-minute-hospitalized-hunger-drought-unicef-says\/#:~:text=%22Today%20in%20Somalia%2C%20every%20single,admitted%20with%20severe%20acute%20malnutrition.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every minute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After years in decline, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/documents\/2022\/in-danger-global-aids-update\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HIV\/AIDS infections are rising<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in some parts of the world and progress in other regions has slowed significantly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ensuring that the US maintains its historic and bipartisan commitment to development assistance is of the utmost importance as world leaders hope to soften the impact of many global challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBeyond being simply the right and just course of action, US development assistance has proven incredibly effective in lifting people out of poverty and preventing the spread of deadly diseases,\u201d the leaders wrote in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/us\/2022\/11\/Faith_Hand-in_Nov_2022_v2.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Congress. \u201cDevelopment aid helps create jobs, get children into school, modernize infrastructure, create stability and strategic partnerships, and improve lives and livelihoods, paving a path to a better future for all of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to advocating for development assistance, the faith leaders will also ask Congress to support two specific provisions:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>The Global Food Security Reauthorization Act<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Passed by the House of Representatives in September, GFSA provides both emergency aid and long-term support to address the root causes of food insecurity. With <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/global-hunger-crisis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">50 million people in 45 countries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the brink of famine, reauthorizing GFSA is critically important.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>PEPFAR Reauthorization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The US President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which celebrates 20 years in 2023, is up for reauthorization. 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