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I am sharing this message from my friend and fellow member of the Metropolitan Washington Regional HIV Health Services Planning Council. The Council (and similar councils all across the nation) deveops the plan for use of federal funds under the Ryan White Care Act. The Care Act is designed to ensure that all people living with HIV and AIDS receive the all the medical and support services they need by closing the gap between what other service providers deliver and the full need in our country. While Larry and I are in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, the Campaign To End AIDS is a national one in which support is needed from all 50 states. Please read the information below and lend your support in whatever way you can to help ensure that the nextr President of the United States increases funding and services form the fight against HIV/AIDS to the level eeded to win this battle once and for all. Many Thanks!! ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:53 PM Subject: [dcfightsback] Stand Against AIDS - again and again!
The Campaign To End AIDS presence was felt greatly at the first Presidential Debate between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. C2EA's 'Stand Against AIDS' - a nationawide collaborative demand that our next President provide a comprehensive plan to end the HIV & AIDS epidemic in the United States - garnered local, regional, and national media attention through the 8 caravans traveling cross country. Mississippi'<WBR>s 'Walk Against AIDS' - a 10 day, 178 mile walk from Jackson to Oxford recreating the famous civil rights march from 1966 - is still being talked about all over the state.
However, we are not done! There is much more work to do to ensure that our elected officials, faith leaders, and local/community leaders understand the urgency of our demand for an end to the HIV & AIDS epidemic. Below are the remaining debates with locations, times, and ticket information. I urge C2EA - and more specifically, people living with HIV & AIDS - to be visible and vocal and continue the demonstrations and that urge action now!
I also want to support the development of local 'Stand' townhall meetings that provide an inclusive forum for people living with HIV & AIDS, their loved ones, advocates, and allies to futher discuss what a national plan to end the HIV & AIDS epidemic means locally. Supportive and permanent housing, effects of stigma and discrimination, barriers to quality care and treatment are just some of the issues that affect us individually and as a community. We have to make sure that our voices are heard!
Vice Presidential Debate
Date: October 2nd - Site: Washington University (St. Louis) - Moderator: Gwen Ifill - Staging/Answer Format: Debate will consist of both foreign and domestic policy questions asked by the moderator. Format will be similar to the presidential debates.
For tickets: http://debate.<WBR>wustl.edu/<WBR>tickets.html Second Presidential Debate
Date: October 7 - Site: Belmont University - Moderator: Tom Brokaw - Staging: Town Hall debate - Format: The moderator will call on members of the audience (and draw questions from the internet). Each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to each question. Following those initial answers, the moderator will invite the candidates to respond to the previous answers, for a total of 1 minute, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment. In the spirit of the Town Hall, all questions will come from the audience (or internet), and not the moderator.
For tickets: http://www.belmontd<WBR>ebate08.com/<WBR>ticketing Third Presidential Debate
Date: October 15 - Site: Hofstra University - Topic: Domestic and Economic Issues - Moderator: Bob Schieffer - Staging: Candidates will be seated at a table - Answer Format: Same as First Presidential Debate - Closing Statements: At the end of this debate (only) each candidate shall have the opportunity for a 90 second closing statement.
For tickets: http://wwwhofstra.<WBR>edu/debate/<WBR>debate_tickets.<WBR>html For questions about developing a 'Stand Against AIDS' town hall in your community, please contact Larry Bryant at (202)408-0305 or bryant2@housingwork<WBR>s.org.
For more information on the Campaign To End AIDS and the 'Stand Against AIDS', please contact info@campaigntoenda<WBR>ids.org or 1877-END AIDS. |
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Thanks Mark. I'm going to add this message to our new HIV HEALTH board so that we can show activity designated to these particular issues. I think what I hear all too often from people who use the Ryan White Care fund is the confusion concerning the stability of the fund. There are rumors and uncertainties spread from doctors themselves that changes and cuts in the fund budgets are only a matter of time. This causes a stir in patients that depend on the fund and many of these "rumors" turn out to be untrue. Perhaps we will have to wait for the hopeful democratic administration to iron out whatever issues in funding are needed and some certainty funnels down to the practitioners. B |
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The o/p was re-submitted, and initially posted by markwdc |
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| | From:  markwdc | Sent: 9/27/2008 10:22 PM |
You know, there are always "crepe hangers"* who love to traffic in gloom and doom. I am not sure what their source of gratification may be, but the contribution of their comments is without positive value. The first Ryan White Care Act was passed in 1990. The current version of the Act passed in 2006 is effective through February 2010. So the program and its funding are nearing the two-decade mark. Efforts at passing a new bll are currently underway. Funding levels have fluctuated very little over the years. However, the need for services has increased as both the number of new infections and the number of people living with HIV/AIDS has increased (along with the average life span of those infected and in constant treatment). However, Ryan White funds are not the largest or even the primary source of care for those with HIV/AIDS. Ryan White is the "payor of last resort" designed to "close the gap" after all other primary sources have been exhausted. Private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration health care, state and local health care programs and other sources all pay for and provide HIV/ADS care services that are accessed before Ryan White comes into play. The overall need for better, more comprehensive health care for all sorts of needs in the United States is great and demands immediate action . . . for the sake of everyone including but not limited to those living with HIV/AIDS. NOTE: The term "crepe hanger" is one not known to everyone these days. I learned it from my parents and grandparents. "Crepe" is a type of fabric. Black crepe used to be draped or swagged over doorways and in other places as a sign of mourning after the death of a family member or a public figure. Hence, "crepe hangers" were harbingers of "doom and gloom". |
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Thanks for clearing that up I was about to ask what flavor? LOL! |
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