END AIDS around the world: the AIDSVote/08 STOP AIDS ten-point platform

  • Provide at least $50 billion by 2013 for the fight against HIV/AIDS (including our fair share of the Global Fund) to double the number of people on US-supported treatment

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  • Add one percent of the annual federal budget to expand foreign aid to fight poverty and disease in impoverished countries, including fighting AIDS
  • Invest new resources to train and hire health workers and strengthen public health systems to achieve minimum health workforce densities of 2.3 doctors and nurses per thousand residents in high-impact countries
  • Support trade policies that protect and expand the right to affordable generic drugs for important health needs, including humanitarian licensing policies and off-patent use for drugs developed with public support

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  • Implement comprehensive, integrated and evidence-based prevention policies, universal access to male and female condoms, voluntary male circumcision, HPV vaccinations and prevention equipment and treatment for injection drug users as well as new expanded research on microbicides and vaccines while integrating sexual and reproductive health services with AIDS programs
  • Meet the needs of children orphaned and made vulnerable by AIDS through community-based support including permanent homes, food, education, medical care and job training and employment
  • Promote the political and economic empowerment of women and girls by securing property and inheritance rights, access to universal education, and freedom from violence;
  • Drop 100% of the debt of 67 of the most impoverished countries, while removing harmful conditions that delay relief, and reforming policies that limit poor countries' investments in health and education
  • Cut tuberculosis deaths and prevalence and malaria-related disease in half through a comprehensive plan to combat TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS as agreed upon by the G8
  • Create an independent cabinet-level agency to fight poverty worldwide; ensure that poverty alleviation at home and abroad is as much a priority as defense or diplomacy; prioritize investments to reduce suffering in the most impoverished nations and communities, coordinating efforts between developing countries, local governments, other donors and multilateral institutions