Renatha with her son Didier and daughter Clissa. Tell Congress to protect women and children with HIV/AIDS!

Dear Friend,

Doesn't every child with HIV/AIDS deserve a chance to grow up healthy?

Unfortunately, of the more than 2.5 million children living with HIV/AIDS around the globe, very few get that chance. Sadly, children are often an afterthought in the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

And that won't change unless people like you speak out for them.

Tell Congress it MUST vote to improve the lives of women and children with HIV/AIDS. Contact your representative NOW.

Elizabeth Glaser - a mother and advocate who lost her own life to AIDS - said, "Once every generation, history brings us to an important crossroads. Sometimes in life there is that moment when it's possible to make a change for the better. This is one of those moments."

Our moment is now.

Next week, the full chamber of the House of Representatives will vote on a historical piece of global HIV/AIDS legislation, which extends important global AIDS programs and builds upon significant strides made in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services during the past five years. Women and children are an important part of this package, so swift passage is essential to ensure that women, like Renatha from Rwanda and her children, will benefit.

Like many other women in Africa, Renatha is fighting a difficult battle against AIDS. However, unlike most women, Renatha was able to access medicines to treat her disease and prevent HIV transmission to her youngest child - but not before two of her other children had already succumbed to AIDS.

Send a message to Congress to protect women and children with HIV/AIDS.

Twenty-six years after the discovery of this disease, lifesaving HIV/AIDS medicines should be available to more women and children. But they are not.

Right now, fewer than 2 in 10 pregnant mothers are receiving the necessary medicines to prevent HIV transmission to their babies. We cannot continue to allow women and children around the world to suffer needlessly.

Take a stand. Send an email to Congress today.

Thanks for your support!



Pamela W. Barnes
President and Chief Executive Officer
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation