Date:12/10/2009

n to flat line support for global AIDS programs. Just in the past few days, both conservative and progressive media have called attention to the President's moves to scale back and decentralize PEPFAR's pre-eminent role as the largest single source of funding for global AIDS," said Zeitz. "At a time when the World Health Organization is revising its AIDS treatment guidelines to extend life-saving medications to more people in order to save more lives, Mr. Obama's decision to flat line PEPFAR and the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund is both irresponsible and not aligned with scientific evidence that anti-retroviral treatment given to people earlier in the course of their disease progression is the right thing to do."

Sources for this story:

Summary of Recent Media Coverage Criticizing Obama AIDS Policies

http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/page/-/PDFs/GAA_MediaSources_ObamaCriticized_121009.pdf

President Obama's World AIDS Day 2009 Report Card: D+

http://www.healthgap.org/press/documents/WADreportcard.pdf

GAA Fact Sheet on Obama's Broken Promises

http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/page/-/PDFs/Broken_Promises_Factsheet_May_2009.pdf

SOURCE Global AIDS Alliance

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