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CARE
Act Action Center
Bicameral, Bipartisan Legislation
Reactions to RWCA Principles
Fact Sheets
Policy Positions
Relevant Reports
News & Editorials
HIV/AIDS Advocacy 2005
AFC's recommendations
Bicameral, Bipartisan Legislation
- NEW! 12/11/06: Congress Passes Ryan White Reauthorization
- 9/29/06: House Passes CARE Act Reauthorization Legislation
- 5/18/06: Senate Committee Passes CARE Act Reauthorization Bill
- 5/18/06: Senate Bill 2823 Presentation (PDF)
- 5/18/06: Senate Bill 2823 (PDF)
- 5/12/06: AFC Testimony on Draft Legislation
- 5/9/06: Outline of Draft Legislation ( PDF)
- 5/9/06: Draft Legislation (PDF)
Reactions
to Bush Administration's CARE Act Principles:
AIDS
Foundation of Chicago
AFC
Reauthorization Powerpoint
(PDF)
AFC Talking Points (PDF)
CAEAR Coalition (PDF)
Gay Men's Health Crisis
HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York
(PDF)
Housing
Works
(PDF)
Illinois House Resolution HR0686 (PDF)
Illinois Joint Response Letter to Congress
NEW! Letter to Senator Dick Durbin from Mayor Richard M. Daley (PDF)
Letter from Governor Rod Blagojevich, Illinois (PDF)
Letter from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City
(PDF)
Letter
from Mayor Richard M. Daley, City
of Chicago
(PDF)
Letter from U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama (PDF)
Letter to HRSA Administrator Elizabeth Duke from State AIDS
directors
from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania
and Texas (PDF)
New York AIDS Coalition (PDF)
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute (PDF)
Protect Illinois Funding Petition (PDF)
Southern AIDS Coalition (PDF)
United States Conference of Mayors (PDF)
Fact
Sheets:
AIDSWatch,
Brief Overview
(PDF)
Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief Coalition, CARE
Act Overview
(PDF)
Kaiser Family Foundation's Statehealthfacts.org, 2004 data by state and
region on Ryan White CARE Act funding
Policy
Positions:
AIDS Action,
Position
Paper
AIDS Alliance
for Children, Youth & Families, Position Paper
(PDF)
The AIDS
Institute,
Position Paper
(PDF)
American
Academy of HIV Medicine and the HIV Medicine Association, Joint Recommendations
American Psychological Association,
Position Paper
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care,
Position Paper
(PDF)
Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief Coalition & AIDS Action,
Position Paper
(PDF)
Communities
Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief Coalition and AIDS Action, Reauthorization
Principles
(PDF)
Human Rights Campaign,
Position Paper
(PDF)
National
Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors,
Position Paper
(PDF)
National
Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Reauthorization Principles
(PDF)
National Association of People With AIDS, Position Paper
(PDF)
National Association of Social Workers, Position Paper
National Minority AIDS Council, Position Paper
National Organizations Responding to AIDS,
Position Paper
(PDF)
National Women and AIDS Collective, A Project of the Ms.
Foundation's
Women and AIDS Fund
(PDF)
Title II Community AIDS National Network, Position Paper
(PDF)
Southern AIDS Coalition, Policy Statement
(PDF)
Relevant
Reports:
General Accounting Office Report on CARE Act and HOPWA
Reauthorization (PDF)
Senator Coburn's proposal for CARE Act Reauthorization (PDF)
Bush Administration Proposal for CARE Act Reauthorization (July 27,
2005) (PDF)
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors,
Reauthorization Watch Volume 5, November 1, 2005 (PDF)
National Health Policy Forum, "The Basics: The Ryan White CARE Act" (PDF)
U.S. General Accounting Office, Report on CARE Act funding (PDF)
News
Articles and Editorials:
"AIDS
is Still a Threat Here", Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General,
The Hill (September 29, 2005)
HIV/AIDS
Advocacy 2005:
Key Congressional
Members List
(PDF)
Key Midwestern Members List
(PDF)
Illinois Congress Delegation Contact
List (PDF)
Illinois
Congressional Districts:
Color
Map (PDF)
Black
& White Map (PDF)
Color
Map: Chicago Area (PDF)
Black
& White Map: Chicago Area (PDF)
AFC's
recommendations regarding 2005 reauthorization:
- NEW! 9/28/06: AFC asks Speaker Hastert to support CARE Act reauthorization
- 7/27/05:AFC
Responds to President Bush's CARE Act Proposal
- 8/5/04:
AFC submits comments to the CDC/HRSA AIDS Advisory Committee
- 7/30/04:
Agencies submit comments supporting the creation of a new federal HIV/AIDS
care program
- 10/3/03:
Written comments to the Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization workgroup
AFC is a
member of NAPWA and
the CAEAR Coalition,
two leading networks advocating for full funding and rational reauthorization
of the Ryan White CARE Act.
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TAKE
ACTION:Send
a letter to your legislators today urging the rational reauthorization
of the Ryan White CARE Act.
CARE Act Archive
Illinois
efforts to support the 2001 reauthorization
JOIN THE LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN
Actual Letters
Letter to Congressman Jerry Weller
Letter from members of the Support Group, “Hope”
English Version (PDF)
Spanish Version (PDF)
CARE Act town hall testimony
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