is a candidate education and voter education project working to make sure that candidates for public office know what it takes to end AIDS and that voters who care about ending AIDS know where the candidates stand on our issues.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Leading AIDS groups turn up the heat on 08 presidential candidates

LEADING AIDS GROUPS TURN UP THE HEAT ON ‘08 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Website and new report unearth surprising responses on hot-button HIV/AIDS issues

Clinton, Edwards, Obama and Kucinich support ending ban on federal funds for needle exchange

New York City, Nov. 28, 2007—Housing Works, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago—three of the nation’s leading AIDS organizations—polled 16 presidential hopefuls on pressing AIDS-related issues as part of an ongoing HIV/AIDS candidate and voter education campaign. Now the results are available on AIDSVote.org.

“World AIDS Day is this Saturday, but you could also say that World AIDS Day is Election Day 2008. That’s because our next President will have the opportunity and the responsibility to end AIDS,” said Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works. “She or he will have the tools to treat 33 million people living with HIV—including over a million Americans—around the planet, as well as the tools to stop the spread of the virus. We’re here to build the political will to make that happen.”

“More than ever,… (more)