A new anti-abortion group called Citizens for Protecting Taxpayers and Parental Rights has launched a campaign called “Yes on 6,” urging Floridians to vote for Amendment 6 this November.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, told Florida students Friday she is “very proud to be associated with Invisible Children,” the organization that earlier this year launched the widely disseminated social media campaign to capture Uganda’s Joseph Kony, wanted for war crimes.
MSNBC on Tuesday rejected an ad critical of Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council and a frequent guest on the network, according to the group that produced the ad.
Just days before National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is to be observed, concerns about the impact HIV/AIDS has on women and girls across the U.S. continues to grow.
An AIDS patient advocacy organization has issued a 2011 scorecard ranking members of Congress according to their support of the federally-funded AIDS Drug Assistance Program, known as ADAP, which has been subject to a funding crisis since 2010.
Advocates launched a campaign to urge the Florida legislature to secure funding for the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program the same week it was announced that almost 1,100 Floridians who live with HIV are on the drug assistance programs waiting list.
Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list increased to 949 people as of Thursday, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (aka NASTAD).
The National Stonewall Democrats, the “national voice of LGBT Democrats” have launched a campaign urging gay and lesbian Republicans to not support “anti-LGBT GOP presidential candidates.”
Despite a significant drop in the number of patients on Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list there are still concerns about that number rising over the coming months.
Tuesday marked the 12th National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and advocates are focusing “on empowering Black Americans to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic through education, testing, engagement and treatment.”
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