ACT UP! Urgent Town Hall on HIV/AIDS Budget Cuts | Monday, November 12th 7pm

[Morrigan Phillips]

Hello all!
I hope this finds you well. On November 12th ACT UP Boston is hosting an important town hall meeting on some serious budget cuts coming to HIV/AIDS services in the state to the tune of $5.4 million to $7 million this year! Please help us spread the word about the meeting. And please join us to learn more about how you can get involved in ACTing UP to stop the cuts!

Town Hall on HIV/AIDS Budget Cuts
Monday, November 12th 7:00pm

Community Church of Boston

565 Boylston St, Boston, Massachusetts 02116-3601

On January 2nd, 2013, automatic cuts to federal programs will take place, known as the sequestration cuts, which will put the lives of many people living with HIV and AIDS in jeopardy. The estimated impact of the cuts include:

15,708 people will lose access to crucial life-saving drugs
5,000 households will lose housing support
460 AIDS research grants will be eliminated

412 people living with HIV will not be diagnosed
$65.2 million in HIV prevention services will be cut
$1.6 million in viral hepatitis prevention services will be cut

These cuts will result in an intensification of what was already a crisis to begin with. Our community cannot sustain more damage. Programs and services that make our lives livable are on the chopping block, and we need to make it clear that we deserve these services AND MORE. Join ACT UP Boston in a gathering of people living with HIV and their allies to discuss the upcoming sequestration cuts, what we estimate their impact will be, and how we can start fighting back. We will share knowledge we have learned through conversations with the DPH, BPH, and Project ABLE, and we will begin to strategize direct actions we can take to stop these cuts in their tracks.