HIV-positive women and children, like Edith and her sons, could be at risk. Tell your senators to stop playing politics and pass important global AIDS legislation TODAY.

Dear Friend,

Hope for millions of women, children, and families living with HIV/AIDS is quickly slipping away. Last month, your messages on behalf of children with HIV/AIDS flooded congressional inboxes. We need your help once again.

Some policymakers in Washington, D.C., are stalling on critically important global HIV/AIDS legislation that could improve countless lives. Some are going one step further and using obscure political tactics in an attempt to block final passage.

This is unacceptable.

Take a stand: Urge your senators to move lifesaving global HIV/AIDS legislation forward and oppose any efforts to weaken the bill.

For women like Edith from Tanzania, access to important HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services are a matter of life and death. When Edith and her sons discovered they were HIV-positive, instead of turning to despair they reached for hope - in the form of important antiretroviral medicines to treat AIDS, which are available through support from the U.S. government.

Although Edith and her family are receiving important medical care for HIV/AIDS, millions of other women and children around the world continue to suffer because they lack access to these important HIV/AIDS services. More children continue to be born infected with HIV because their mothers cannot get the drugs they need to prevent mother-to-child transmission. And for these women and children, time is running out.

Tell your senators to swiftly act in support of women and children with HIV/AIDS and to pass the global HIV/AIDS legislation NOW.

The consequences of inaction are great - more babies born infected with HIV/AIDS.


Thanks for your support!

Diane E. Thompson
Vice President of Public Policy and Communications
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
http://www.pedaids.org