Please take 21 seconds to tell the European Union to take the lead to end AIDS

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Dear colleagues,

Please take action below and distribute this email among your contacts. It takes 21 second, probably less!

Many thanks and have a lovely day

Olga

Olga Szubert Campaign Volunteer

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Tell the European Union to take the lead to end AIDS

The European Union (EU) is the world's largest source of official development assistance and one of the main contributors to the global HIV response. The EU has also placed the promotion of human rights at the centre of its foreign policy. New evidence has emerged that has shown us that it is now possible to end AIDS in a generation.

But the EU currently has no plan of action on HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.

The end of AIDS is now possible but we need your help to call on the EU to seize this opportunity and take the lead in providing a human rights-based response to end AIDS within a generation.

Click here to take action and ask the European Union to take the lead on ending AIDS

You can find out more in our briefing European Union: honouring commitments on HIV and human rights?

What do we want from the European Union?

There is currently no EU plan of action for HIV, TB or Malaria. Not even a Global Health strategy where this plan could sit!

We want the EU to play its part in "creating an AIDS-free generation" and make this clear in its planning and financial mechanisms.

Please take action and call on the EU to:

1) Develop a renewed plan on Global Health and on HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the EU External Action that underscores the importance of a human rights-based response to HIV and makes clear steps towards helping to end AIDS

2) Provide leadership by allocating additional support to meet the urgent funding needs of Global Fund before the International AIDS Conference in July 2012; and call on member states to live up to their pledges to contribute to the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria

3) Strengthen human rights based financing mechanisms for communities who are at higher risk of HIV infection in those countries that the Global Fund will no longer be funding, such as those in middle income countries.

4) Include concrete measures in the renewed plans on HIV and AIDS to increase policy coherence across the EU's trade, external action and development and human rights policies, ensuring that its trade agreements do not undermine the rights of people living with HIV and others to access affordable essential medicines.

Please click here to email Ashton, EU Representative for Foreign Affairs; Andris Piebalgs, the EU Commissioner for Development; and other EU officials.

Join the discussion on the campaign's LinkedIn group: `What's Preventing HIV Prevention?'

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance Preece House, 91-101 Davigdor Road, Hove, BN3 1RE, UK Direct line: +441273718912 Office switchboard: +44 1273 718900 Mobile: +44 7889 603614 Fax: +44 1273 718901

http://www.aidsalliance.org/

www.whatspreventingprevention.org

[Guest guest]

Dear colleagues,

Please take action below and distribute this email among your contacts. It takes 21 second, probably less!

Many thanks and have a lovely day

Olga

Olga Szubert Campaign Volunteer

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Tell the European Union to take the lead to end AIDS

The European Union (EU) is the world's largest source of official development assistance and one of the main contributors to the global HIV response. The EU has also placed the promotion of human rights at the centre of its foreign policy. New evidence has emerged that has shown us that it is now possible to end AIDS in a generation.

But the EU currently has no plan of action on HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.

The end of AIDS is now possible but we need your help to call on the EU to seize this opportunity and take the lead in providing a human rights-based response to end AIDS within a generation.

Click here to take action and ask the European Union to take the lead on ending AIDS

You can find out more in our briefing European Union: honouring commitments on HIV and human rights?

What do we want from the European Union?

There is currently no EU plan of action for HIV, TB or Malaria. Not even a Global Health strategy where this plan could sit!

We want the EU to play its part in "creating an AIDS-free generation" and make this clear in its planning and financial mechanisms.

Please take action and call on the EU to:

1) Develop a renewed plan on Global Health and on HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the EU External Action that underscores the importance of a human rights-based response to HIV and makes clear steps towards helping to end AIDS

2) Provide leadership by allocating additional support to meet the urgent funding needs of Global Fund before the International AIDS Conference in July 2012; and call on member states to live up to their pledges to contribute to the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria

3) Strengthen human rights based financing mechanisms for communities who are at higher risk of HIV infection in those countries that the Global Fund will no longer be funding, such as those in middle income countries.

4) Include concrete measures in the renewed plans on HIV and AIDS to increase policy coherence across the EU's trade, external action and development and human rights policies, ensuring that its trade agreements do not undermine the rights of people living with HIV and others to access affordable essential medicines.

Please click here to email Ashton, EU Representative for Foreign Affairs; Andris Piebalgs, the EU Commissioner for Development; and other EU officials.

Join the discussion on the campaign's LinkedIn group: `What's Preventing HIV Prevention?'

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance Preece House, 91-101 Davigdor Road, Hove, BN3 1RE, UK Direct line: +441273718912 Office switchboard: +44 1273 718900 Mobile: +44 7889 603614 Fax: +44 1273 718901

http://www.aidsalliance.org/

www.whatspreventingprevention.org