Advocacy
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AIDS Survival Project uses its collective
voice to advocate for appropriate funding for AIDS programs and equitable
public policy on such issues as HIV surveillance, prevention, housing
and the human rights of people living with HIV. The success of our advocacy
efforts over the years lies in mobilizing the community to speak out
and take action; you can be part of this collective voice by attending
advocacy meetings or signing up for email announcements sent through
our Advocacy Alert Network.
Our Advocacy Program organizes an annual Legislative AIDS Awareness
Day in the Georgia capital to keep important AIDS issues in the radar
of General Assembly members and interested citizens. We also train
and mobilize people to speak to and write their elected officials about
vital concerns to the AIDS community and we organize an ADAP (AIDS Drug
Assistance Program) Lobby Day during the legislative session.
In addition to the work we do as an individual agency, AIDS Survival
Project has taken advocacy leadership positions in coalition with other
organizations, including the Georgia AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
Task Force, the Grady Coalition and the Georgia
Rural Urban Summit, and on policy-making boards such as the Metropolitan
Atlanta HIV Health Services Planning Council.
As a member of the national CAEAR
Coalition (Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief), we advocate
for increased federal funding for Ryan White Title I and re-authorization
of the CARE Act. ASP also sends representatives every year to AIDSWatch
in Washington, D.C., to lobby federal representatives about care, prevention,
research and housing.
Please call (404-874-7926) or email
us if you have an issue regarding your rights as an HIV-positive individual.