Health GAP is just returning from the International AIDS Conference, where we joined with 200 organizations from around the world to organize a massive thousand-person march to the opening ceremony. We carried with us a strong message that people with AIDS and allies will not sit silently by while governments break their promises to fund AIDS programs. We declared, in our signs, banners, chants and speeches, "Broken promises kill! No retreat. Fund AIDS." And governments - especially the US government - took notice.

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Just yesterday, PEPFAR lifted it's restriction on new patient enrollment in Uganda. This crisis was explained on the front page of the New York Times in May. Thanks to your work, HIV+ people in Uganda can get treatment funded by PEPFAR again. But we have to keep up the fight, because this crisis could happen in any number of other countries if the US government doesn't increase funding for global AIDS.

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