PrEP4All and Over 100 Partner Organizations Tell Congress to #SaveHIVFunding!

In response to an unprecedented proposed $767 million in domestic HIV funding cuts in the House of Representatives, PrEP4All, along with our partners AVAC, HIVMA, PrEP In Black America, NASTAD, the HIV + Hepatitis Policy Institute, The AIDS Institute, AIDS United, NMAC, and several members of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership launched the #SaveHIVFunding campaign at the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS in Washington DC last Fall. Since then, thousands of advocates and community members, along with over 100 organizations, have joined the fight to demand Congress keep the bipartisan commitment to fund Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) activities.

With key deadlines in the FY24 budget process quickly approaching, it is more important now than ever that you join us in telling Congress to reject cuts and #SaveHIVFunding by sending letters to your representatives.

The House bill also proposes to drastically cut funding for the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative, which seeks to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in HIV. The bill would completely eliminate funding for Minority AIDS Initiative Funding within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration and cuts the Minority HIV/AIDS Fund by 53%.

Together, these funding cuts would eliminate all activities of the EHE, reverse recent progress in bringing down new HIV cases, and leave state and local health departments and community-based organizations without needed funding to provide services to their community. With 70% of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV projected to be 50 and older by 2030, the impact on the aging HIV community would be particularly severe. In contrast, the Senate bipartisan spending bill proposes to maintain HIV funding for FY24 and includes a proposed increase of $3 million dollars to continue the fight to end the epidemic and begin work toward a National PrEP Program.

Please help us push Congress to pass a final FY24 spending bill that rejects cuts to HIV programs and instead would #SaveHIVFunding by sending letters to your Senators and Representative now! Please also review the #SaveHIVFunding social media toolkit that you and your organization can use to urge our leaders in Congress to #SaveHIVFunding.