[Viva] Fwd: IAS Launches New Global Advocacy Campaign, Universal Access Now

[Margarite Sanchez]

FYI- good to see that the International AIDS Society is attempting to hold
the G20 countries to their commitments.
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From: IAS Member Service <memberservice at iasociety.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Subject: IAS Launches New Global Advocacy Campaign, Universal Access Now
To: margaritesanchez at gmail.com


 Dear IAS Members,



Today the IAS is launching a new advocacy campaign: Universal Access Now!.
We need your support and involvement to make sure world leaders sit up and
take notice. The campaign aims to ensure nations follow through on their
commitments to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care
and support for all those in need by 2010. The campaign focuses particularly
on the upcoming G8 and G20 Summits to be held in Canada. The universal
access promise was first made in 2005 by G8 nations at the Gleneagles summit
and a few months later by *all* UN Member States at the Millennium
Development Goal Review Meeting. 2010 is also the year that the Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – the world’s most effective global
health financing mechanism – needs at least $20 billion from donors to meet
the demand for quality, country-driven programmes that will scale up local
programmes to achieve universal access.



We have achieved remarkable progress in recent years as a result of
international commitment and investments: new HIV infections are declining
in many countries, and so is illness and death among people living with HIV.
This is leading to increasing overall life expectancy in many high-burden
countries. Recent evidence has also demonstrated the remarkable impact of
AIDS investments on improving maternal and child health, and reducing the
burden of TB, childhood malnutrition and diarrheal diseases, and malaria.
And there is mounting research which demonstrates that that scaling up ART
programmes will dramatically reduce HIV transmission, improving even further
the cost-effectiveness of these interventions. Yet, despite this progress we
are still far from achieving universal access in 2010. There is growing
concern that world leaders are not matching financial resources to their
political rhetoric.



We need your help to hold world leaders accountable for the commitments they
made just five years ago. We know that our 14,000-strong membership needs
the tools and resources to deliver the evidence-based prevention, treatment
and care interventions that have made progress on AIDS possible. Go to our
campaign page at http://www.iasociety.org/universalaccessnow.aspx to find
out more about the campaign, the research behind it, and the work we’re
doing with friends and allies on this issue.  Use the letter-writing tool to
demand action on universal access from G8 and G20 leaders at the upcoming G8
and G20 summits in Canada. Make your voice and experience count in a
defining year for global health goals. We look forward to working with you
as we move forward on this campaign.



Sincerely,



Julio Montaner, IAS President

Robin Gorna, IAS Executive Director



International AIDS Society (IAS)

http://www.iasociety.org
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