ACW Partner Invitation Letter
To join the over 400 organisation strong ACW campaign, please go to www.aidscarewatch.org
Dear Friends,
More than three million people lost their lives to AIDS during the course of 2006.
Many of you are fully aware of this grim fact and are working hard to bring about change and save lives by advocating for essential, life-saving medicines to extend the lives of people living with HIV.
As with any advocacy work, new challenges constantly present themselves. Many treatment access efforts are happening in isolation, not least because priorities differ from one region to another and between specific country and community contexts.
As a global community, we also dedicate a great deal of our energies reacting to new circumstances, bad decisions and broken promises – this leaves little in reserve for proactive and coordinated AIDS care advocacy agendas. The lack of an overarching and proactive advocacy agenda, focusing on comprehensive care and treatment needs, is arguably one of the costs this fragmentation has created.
While we all agree that universal access to antiretroviral drugs is a vital priority, we are nevertheless seeing our friends, family and colleagues die because ARVs, and other affordable, effective care and treatment options, are often not available when they are needed. That is not going to change tomorrow, next month, or in the foreseeable future.
In response to this reality, an unprecedented global civil society campaign - AIDS-Care-Watch (ACW) - has been conceived to provide an avenue for treatment activists and advocates worldwide to come together to soundly advocate for a comprehensive care package for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Comprehensive care for people living with HIV/AIDS is clearly not a new idea. But a unified, popular and vocal advocacy campaign to promote it is. Each of us living with and/or working on HIV/AIDS recognize that a full range of care and treatment elements is required to improve and extend our lives. Access to treatment/prevention for tuberculosis and other opportunistic infections, voluntary counseling and testing, assured food security, home and community based care, among others, are all part of the essential AIDS care package.
AIDS-Care-Watch advocates for a comprehensive package of HIV/AIDS care and treatment services under one standard. By keeping the advocacy agenda of AIDS-Care-Watch broad, it is proving relevant to most communities and appeals to activists, advocates, AIDS service organizations and people with HIV globally. This is crucial to generating a single collective voice to impact decisions related to care and treatment at all levels.
AIDS-Care-Watch does not intend to become ‘another’ in the list of advocacy initiatives. Nor does it set out to undermine or compete with the advocacy work already happening in this area, rather to help bring them together and to build further.
To achieve this, it simply aims to unify some of our disconnected efforts and priorities in relation to care and treatment advocacy. In this way, ACW helps us all to more clearly articulate to national governments, international agencies, funders and others what the overall care and treatment needs of people living with HIV/AIDS are, and to provide advocates around the world an initial road map for doing so with a clear message.
To find out more about AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign, including how to join over 400 global partners that have already taken their place in the campaign, there are three immediate steps you can take:
Find out more about AIDS-Care-Watch at http://www.aidscarewatch.org/
Join the campaign! Sign up as a campaign partner at thttp://www.aidscarewatch.org/cms/partners_form.asp
Email the Campaign Coordinator at tina@aidscarewatch.org with questions or comments.
***ACW can easily provide you with a formal ‘partner invitation’ letter should your organisation need it for a formal process required prior to officially signing onto a global campaign. Contact Tina at tina@aidscarewatch.org to request such a letter.
We greatly look forward to hearing from you and, hopefully working with you to meet our collective goal of reducing the number of preventable AIDS related deaths in 2007.
Best wishes,
Tina Noga Bjerno
AIDS Care Watch Campaign Coordinator
Chiang Mai, Thailand
~~~~~~~~
tina@aidscarewatch.org
www.aidscarewatch.org
Dear Friends,
More than three million people lost their lives to AIDS during the course of 2006.
Many of you are fully aware of this grim fact and are working hard to bring about change and save lives by advocating for essential, life-saving medicines to extend the lives of people living with HIV.
As with any advocacy work, new challenges constantly present themselves. Many treatment access efforts are happening in isolation, not least because priorities differ from one region to another and between specific country and community contexts.
As a global community, we also dedicate a great deal of our energies reacting to new circumstances, bad decisions and broken promises – this leaves little in reserve for proactive and coordinated AIDS care advocacy agendas. The lack of an overarching and proactive advocacy agenda, focusing on comprehensive care and treatment needs, is arguably one of the costs this fragmentation has created.
While we all agree that universal access to antiretroviral drugs is a vital priority, we are nevertheless seeing our friends, family and colleagues die because ARVs, and other affordable, effective care and treatment options, are often not available when they are needed. That is not going to change tomorrow, next month, or in the foreseeable future.
In response to this reality, an unprecedented global civil society campaign - AIDS-Care-Watch (ACW) - has been conceived to provide an avenue for treatment activists and advocates worldwide to come together to soundly advocate for a comprehensive care package for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Comprehensive care for people living with HIV/AIDS is clearly not a new idea. But a unified, popular and vocal advocacy campaign to promote it is. Each of us living with and/or working on HIV/AIDS recognize that a full range of care and treatment elements is required to improve and extend our lives. Access to treatment/prevention for tuberculosis and other opportunistic infections, voluntary counseling and testing, assured food security, home and community based care, among others, are all part of the essential AIDS care package.
AIDS-Care-Watch advocates for a comprehensive package of HIV/AIDS care and treatment services under one standard. By keeping the advocacy agenda of AIDS-Care-Watch broad, it is proving relevant to most communities and appeals to activists, advocates, AIDS service organizations and people with HIV globally. This is crucial to generating a single collective voice to impact decisions related to care and treatment at all levels.
AIDS-Care-Watch does not intend to become ‘another’ in the list of advocacy initiatives. Nor does it set out to undermine or compete with the advocacy work already happening in this area, rather to help bring them together and to build further.
To achieve this, it simply aims to unify some of our disconnected efforts and priorities in relation to care and treatment advocacy. In this way, ACW helps us all to more clearly articulate to national governments, international agencies, funders and others what the overall care and treatment needs of people living with HIV/AIDS are, and to provide advocates around the world an initial road map for doing so with a clear message.
To find out more about AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign, including how to join over 400 global partners that have already taken their place in the campaign, there are three immediate steps you can take:
Find out more about AIDS-Care-Watch at http://www.aidscarewatch.org/
Join the campaign! Sign up as a campaign partner at thttp://www.aidscarewatch.org/cms/partners_form.asp
Email the Campaign Coordinator at tina@aidscarewatch.org with questions or comments.
***ACW can easily provide you with a formal ‘partner invitation’ letter should your organisation need it for a formal process required prior to officially signing onto a global campaign. Contact Tina at tina@aidscarewatch.org to request such a letter.
We greatly look forward to hearing from you and, hopefully working with you to meet our collective goal of reducing the number of preventable AIDS related deaths in 2007.
Best wishes,
Tina Noga Bjerno
AIDS Care Watch Campaign Coordinator
Chiang Mai, Thailand
~~~~~~~~
tina@aidscarewatch.org
www.aidscarewatch.org
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