Prevention Justice Mobilization: Stopping AIDS Through Unity and Action

“What do we want? EFFECTIVE PREVENTION! When do we want it? NOW!” shouted HIV/AIDS, women rights, and faith-based advocates as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to join a World AIDS Day rally at the White House. as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to join a World AIDS Day rally at the White House.

On Friday, November 30, nearly 200 activists—including community members, students, and people living with HIV and AIDS—brought together local, domestic, and global demands for critical changes to U.S. HIV and AIDS policies. Those rallying called upon the government to cut the red tape on HIV and AIDS programs, with particular emphasis afforded to prevention programs at home and abroad.

The rally-goers, armed with posters and giant scissors with messages like “Sex Education Saves” and “Cut the Red Tape on U.S. Global HIV Prevention,” weren’t the only people making demands of the Administration. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s non-voting delegate in Congress, issued powerful words to President Bush as part of her address to the crowd.

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