Take Action: Call Now for Global AIDS Funding
July 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am | posted by Virginia Simmons

The Senate continues to debate PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) today and will be holding a series of critical votes. We need you to call your senators right now and tell them to vote to pass this bill.

There is a chance that an individual senator could raise something called a “budget point of order,” in which case we’d need 60 votes to bypass this additional obstacle or else the entire bill will be defeated.

We believe that there is strong, bipartisan support to pass PEPFAR, but we’re not out of the woods yet. This is the moment we need you most. Please call now and ask your senators to support this bill for $50 billion dollars in critical global AIDS, TB and malaria over the next five years.

All the information you need to make your call is here: http://one.org/call/signup.html?cp_id=28&mode=senate

-Virginia Simmons