AIDS Project Los Angeles Statement On Bush Administration's AIDS Leadership.News Editors and HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002 AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by HIV disease, reducing the incidence of HIV infection, and advocating for fair and effective HIV-related public policy. and a coalition of national AIDS organizations today gave President George W. Bush near failing grades in their first "report card" on his Administration's performance in ending the worldwide epidemic. The coalition issued its report card on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the first meeting of the newly appointed President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). "We have never needed leadership on AIDS more than we do now," said Daniel C. Montoya, Director of Government Affairs for AIDS Project Los Angeles and former Executive Director of PACHA during the Clinton-Gore Administration. "Some 40 million people are now infected with the AIDS virus AIDS virus n. See HIV. worldwide," Montoya added. "An estimated one million are infected here at home, and another 130,000 are living with HIV/AIDS in California alone." Montoya said Presidential leadership was especially critical to stop the spread of the epidemic in minority communities. "In Los Angeles County," Montoya said, "Latinos now make up the largest number of new AIDS cases each year, and African Americans are over twice as likely to get infected as whites." The coalition report card gave Bush only one "B," for increasing research funding at the National Institutes of Health. He received "D's" for inadequate funding of care and services for people with HIV/AIDS and an "F" for lack of leadership in AIDS prevention. "These programs will significantly impact minority communities, but the President completely missed his opportunity," Montoya said. The coalition called on the President to meet with AIDS advocates to discuss, among other issues, increased funding for HIV/AIDS programs in the U.S. and abroad, and speedy appointments of health experts to vacant positions in the federal Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS , specifically, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. and the Food and Drug Administration. AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest AIDS service organizations, provides direct services to more than 10,000 men, women and children living with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and AIDS in Los Angeles County. Services include prevention education, a food bank, professional dental care, housing assistance, mental health counseling, women's services and case management. APLA APLA AIDS Project Los Angeles (California) APLA Asia Pacific and Latin America APLA Atlantic Provinces Library Association APLA Antiphospholipid Antibody (syndrome) is a leader in the provision of bilingual HIV treatment information, in print and on the Internet, and advocates for effective AIDS-related policies and legislation on the local, state and federal level. For more information, please visit www.apla.org. |
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