Project Updates

Global ACCESS is off to a great start. We have been traveling around the country engaging in teach-ins to get young (as in new) activists fired up about global AIDS advocacy. Our efforts have generated thousands of letters to Congressmembers and the President and we just completed an exciting direct action in the lobby of the Capitol building where legislators came and directly saw and heard our passion about the issue of truly making needle exchange legal and funded in this country and around the world. The following day, Rep. Obey who heads up the Congressional budget process, issued an amendment which would lift the ban on federal funding for access to clean syringes (a proven way to prevent the spread of HIV). Talk about effective!