Health Action AIDS Campaign

Health Action AIDS Campaign

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is the greatest public health crisis of our time. The Health Action AIDS Campaign at Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to support a comprehensive AIDS strategy and advocates for unprecedented funds to combat the disease.

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Julian Atim, MD

Human Rights Advocate in Uganda

"I think AIDS is not the problem but the violation of human rights that has many times led to vulnerable people acquiring the disease."

 
 


 

It's Not Over: Innovative Approaches to the Global AIDS Epidemic - a Town Meeting in Minnesota

PHR and the Minnesota AIDS Project co-sponsored a town meeting at the University of Minnesota, with the Medical School's PHR Student Chapter.



PEPFAR Reauthorization Process

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the administration's plan for HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and care worldwide, is up for reauthorization in the US Congress.



Health Action AIDS Staff Blogs from Uganda's First Global Health Workforce Forum

The Forum will bring together up to 1000 participants, including ministers of health, civic leaders, civil society members, health workers, academics and health professional leaders from around the world.



Health Professional Leadership Summit on Women and HIV/AIDS

The summit brought together health professionals to discuss how national governments and the international community can develop health systems that protect and empower women.



Health Action AIDS Campaign Hosts New York State Gathering

Health professionals, students, community leaders and an influential decision maker discussed the global AIDS epidemic from a health and human rights perspective.



HERAF, PHR's Partner in Kenya, Releases Statement on Post-Election Violence



Open Letter to 2008 Presidential Candidates on Global Health and HIV-AIDS

Physicians for Human Rights and Health Gap, US leaders of the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, sent an open letter offering several recommendations for global health proposals to the 2008 presidential candidates.



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