[Peace] Fwd: World AIDS Day--Call the White House!!!

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:13:30 -0500
>To: akagan at uiuc.edu (Alfred Kagan)
>Subject: World AIDS Day--Call the White House!!!
>From: africaaction at igc.org
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>ACTION ALERT!
>
>                        WHITE HOUSE CALL- IN 
>                  World AIDS Day - December 1, 2003
>                         Call: 1-877 HOPE USA
>
>
>URGE President Bush to Keep his Promise to Fight AIDS in Africa !!
>
>The HIV/AIDS pandemic is the worst health crisis in human history 
>and the greatest threat to human security that exists today. Africa 
>is "Ground Zero" of the global AID crisis. Though it is home to just 
>over 10% of the world's population, sub-Saharan Africa has more than 
>75% of the
>world's HIV/AIDS cases.
>
>As we take this day to remember our brothers and sisters in Africa 
>and across the globe who have lost their lives to the pandemic, join 
>us in urging President Bush to keep his promise of increased funding 
>to fightAIDS in Africa.
>
>*   In 2002, almost 3 million Africans died of AIDS. This is 
>equivalent to the entire population of Chicago.
>*   AIDS has reduced average life expectancy in Africa by 15 years.
>*   One quarter of AIDS deaths in Africa are among children.
>
>Across Africa, organizations, activists, and people living with 
>HIV/AIDS are fighting to save lives and prevent new infections. But 
>their efforts are constrained by a lack of resources and external 
>obstacles. The HIV/AIDS pandemic will not be defeated unless there 
>is a successful U.S effort to respond to the crisis at its epicenter 
>in
>Africa. Take just one minute to make that call on Monday Dec 1!
>
>By calling the White House, you will help get funding to programs 
>that will treat those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and prevent 
>more people from becoming infected.
>
>What to say:
>*   Tell President Bush that you support the United States
>     spending at least $6 billion in 2005 for AIDS, TB and Malaria in 
>Africa and globally.
>
>*   Urge the President to deliver on his promise to the world by 
>proposing a budget for 2005 that will fully fund the United State's 
>share of the world's need for global AIDS, TB, and Malaria without 
>taking the money from other health and development programs. 
>
>Together with thousands of Americans across the United States, we 
>will send a message to the President that he needs to live up to his 
>promises to respond to the AIDS crisis at its epicenter in Africa.


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu