Stop AIDS. If not now, when?
6,000 people die every day from AIDS-related illnesses, a preventable tragedy given the existence of simple life-saving medicines. Skillshare International is working in some of worst-hit countries, in Southern Africa, and sees the devastating effects of the pandemic.
Since 2005, world leaders including the British Prime Minister, have promised to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. But this promise is being broken: barely one in four people have access to the HIV drugs they need to stay alive.
In spring 2008 the UK Government will publish a new three-year strategy on tackling HIV and AIDS in the developing world. We believe this is a crucial moment: the Government must provide the money, the health workers, the affordable medicines - and the leadership - so desperately needed to keep promises and save lives.
Please help by taking action. Go to www.ifnotnowwhen.tk to join us in sending a message to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for International Development.
In a speech to the United Nations in July 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "We cannot allow our promises... to descend into just aspirations... and then only words that symbolise broken promises". |