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Thursday, November 29, 2007
10:00 a.m. (EST)
A World AIDS Day Call for Changes to PEPFAR's HIV Prevention Strategies
Leading U.S. and African Women's, Faith-based and Youth Rights Organizations Call on Congress to Start Taking Effective Prevention Seriously in Reauthorization of Global AIDS Plan
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released by the Center for Health & Gender Equity:
When: Thursday, November 29, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. EST
Who: Rev. William G. Sinkford, President, Unitarian Universalist
Association
Serra Sippel, Acting Executive Director, Center for Health
Gender Equity, moderator
Brian Ackerman, International Youth Leadership Council,
Advocates for Youth
Bernice Heloo, President, Society for Women and AIDS in Africa,
Ghana
Promise Mthembu, International Community of Women Living with
HIV and AIDS (ICW), invited
Rev. J.P. Heath, ANERELA, South Africa, invited
What: A World AIDS Day teleconference for international and national news media focusing on how U.S. international HIV prevention policy falls short of meeting the needs of women and youth, and on the steps Congress needs to take during the upcoming reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address the prevention needs of women and youth.
The next day, on November 30, activists will participate in a march and
rally in Washington, D.C. calling on Congress and the Administration to
Start Taking Effective Prevention Seriously by taking the necessary steps
to address the HIV prevention needs of women and youth worldwide. For more
information on this event, visit
http://www.pepfarwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&ta
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