President Obama announced today that $50 million in additional funds will be going toward treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
Obama said during “The Beginning of the End of AIDS,” an online conference organized by ONE International, “a grassroots advocacy and campaigning More…
Gov. Rick Scott extended(PDF) “greetings and best wishes to all those observing” World AIDS Day today, while organizations in Florida and the U.S. are calling for action against the problems people living with HIV/AIDS are facing.
Under newly proposed legislation, the federal government would no longer fund projects that only teach sex education in the context of “abstinence only until marriage.”
Democratic California Rep. Barbara Lee on Friday introduced legislation aimed at addressing the on-going criminalization of persons living with HIV infection and Reps. Hansen Clarke and John Conyers of Detroit have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.
Here’s how Lee’s office described the bill when announcing it More…
Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59 Democrats and Republicans have united in pledging to spend more money for research and prevention efforts to combat the spread of AIDS domestically and worldwide.
The Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus, spurred by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), More…
Thirty years into the epidemic, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday launched the first ever congressional HIV/AIDS caucus.
According to the National Minority AIDS Council, “the Caucus will examine methods by which the United States can maintain global leadership in the response to this 30 year epidemic.”
Given the More…
Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59 Democrats and Republicans have united in pledging to spend more money for research and prevention efforts to combat the spread of AIDS domestically and worldwide.
UPDATE: Sept. 16, 10:30 a.m. This article was amended with a correction*.
Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59 Democrats and Republicans have united in pledging to spend more money for research and prevention efforts to combat the spread of AIDS domestically and worldwide.
The House leadership may not be ready to pressure embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to step down, but his colleagues are starting to amp up their criticism. Yesterday Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick of Idaho joined Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) in saying that the veteran congressman should resign from the More…
The war in Afghanistan has produced divisions among Democrats in Congress from the start, but a series of votes on Thursday night revealed a rising tide of Democratic discontentment that could alter the trajectory of the Obama administration’s approach to the conflict.
[Security1] A measure to fund the administration’s 30,000-troop More…
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