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110th Congress 2007 - 2009
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AIDS ACTION COUNCIL STRATEGIC WORK PLAN SUMMARY
AIDS Action Council will implement its work plan in
the context of work to develop a comprehensive national plan that
includes HIV prevention, treatment and care and research.
In pursuing its strategic goals, AIDS Action will devote a high
priority to the impact of HIV/AIDS on communities of color and sexual
minorities nationwide.
AIDS Action Council’s strategic goals through 2010:
1. Ensure accessible and
affordable treatment and care that meets the highest standards of
quality to all people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.
Priorities:
- National health care reform, including universal care
- Passage of Early Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA).
- Viability of Medicaid as a safety net for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Expansion of state Medicaid plans to provide early coverage for low-income HIV+ people.
- Strengthen Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits.
- Introduction of comprehensive health care reform legislation
- Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
- Implementation of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006, which reauthorized the CARE Act.
- Development of proposals for the next version of Ryan White CARE Act legislation.
- Expanded and revised AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
- Development of a proposal for a nationwide ADAP that ensures equity across the U.S.
- Federal funding for treatment and care
- Ensuring adequate federal funding for HIV/AIDS treatment and care, education and training and research.
2.
Ensure the expansion of interventions and funding to prevent HIV
infections so that the annual number of reported new infections is
reduced by at least 10% in the United States by 2009.
Priorities:
- • Primacy of evidence-based HIV prevention.
- Introduction of federal legislation that enhances and supports evidence-based HIV prevention.
- Ending abstinence-only policies and funding and adoption of evidence-based comprehensive sex education programs.
- Lifting of ban on federal funding for syringe exchange.
- Increase in NIH’s capacity for and investment in HIV prevention research.
- Oversight of federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS bureau.
- Increased accountability and transparency of the CDC’s domestic HIV prevention programs.
- Effective Microbicides and HIV vaccines
- Passage of the Microbicide Development Act
- Increased research to achieve an effective vaccine.
- Federal funding for domestic HIV prevention
- Ensuring adequate federal funding for domestic HIV prevention programs and services.
3. Ensure effective,
collaborative United States leadership and significant federal
financial support to global efforts to stop the spread of HIV infection
and provide treatment and care to people living with HIV/AIDS
throughout the world.
Priorities:
- U.S. leadership in combating global AIDS
- Increased annual federal appropriations for global AIDS programs.
- Passage of federal legislation to revise and reauthorize PEPFAR
- Complete elimination of U.S. immigration and travel ban affecting HIV+ individuals.
4. Ensure that the United
States enforces standards for client data collection, management,
reporting and retention that protects the privacy of people living with
HIV/AIDS.
Priorities:
- Protection of patient privacy and confidentiality in data management.
- Ensure
maximum protection of client privacy and confidentiality in federal
legislation regarding health information technology and data management
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