NYCAHN Goes Global!
NYCAHN Goes Global!
In order to fight for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS across the world, including family members of many NYCAHN members and to further address the root causes of AIDS and poverty here in the United States, NYCAHN engages in some exciting projects that create linkages between our members here and low-income people living with HIV/AIDS in other parts of the world.
Check out NYCAHN's sister organization, the Centre for the Right to Health in Nigeria. NYCAHN Director Jennifer Flynn and the Centre's Project Director Bede Edzeifuele met at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University where they both had Human Rights Advocate's Fellowships. The Centre's Executive Director then visited NYCAHN and a relationship between our members and the clients of this amazing organization began to form.
Here is a great publication which our dear friends Bede (and Sharonann Lynch from HealthGAP, along with tons of other incredible activists) worked on:
>>Missing
the Target: A report on HIV/AIDS Treatment Access from the Frontlines,
2005.
At the current time, there is no more exciting group then FrontAIDS from Russia. FrontAIDS is committed to radical direct action to draw widespread, international media attention to the AIDS crisis throughout Russia. Currently, only 500 people living with AIDS in Russia are able to access ARV treatment. Check out this amazing video that is sure to inspire you to support them.
FrontAIDS is currently organizing for the G8 Summit in St. Petersberg in July, 2006. Thye will be fighting for access to lifesaving medications for HIV+ and HCV+ Russians. They are demanding a lifting of the patents for these lifesaving medications and for the importation of generic versions by the Russian government. They need your support! Contact them for more information or to make a donation: http://www.frontaids.ru
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