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For two decades of public policy advocacy, AIDS Action and the HIV community have dedicated themselves to keeping the crucial issues visible to policy makers in the administration, on Capitol Hill, and to all people living in the United States. To address this nation’s epidemic, AIDS Action, with its Public Policy Committee and Board of Directors, has developed a policy agenda that confronts the true needs around care, treatment, prevention, and research. In order to ensure that our policy agenda would clearly echo the voice of the HIV community, AIDS Action hosted a national policy institute at the United States Conference on AIDS in September of 2002. It was here that the legislative and policy agenda was first introduced and discussed publicly. The information we received from the participants of the institute helped to confirm and strengthen our understanding of community concerns. The ideas and suggestions received from the community have been incorporated into the policy agenda. The policy issues identified here were developed with an understanding of the complexities of the current domestic HIV epidemic. Their common objective is to ensure that our nation’s response to HIV is based upon community engagement and sound public health science. AIDS Action, the National Voice on AIDS, in its resolve to help build a strong national response to HIV will pursue the following thematic policy agenda:
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