FW: (URGENT) Emergency Organizational Sign on for FY16 HIV Research Funding at the NIH
Suraj Madoori
Reply-To: Kimberly Miller
Date: Monday, January 18, 2016 at 10:56 AM
To: "FAPP (Fed_AID...@googlegroups.com)"
Subject: [FAPP] FW: (URGENT) Emergency Organizational Sign on for FY16 HIV Research Funding at the NIH
CORRECTION: The deadline to endorse is COB Tuesday, January 19th
To sign an organization on – please complete this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJLFD6S
January 20, 2016
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
As your Administration completes work on finalizing the its FY2016 operating budget for the National Institutes of Health, we write to ask that the NIH budget include the $100 million increase for HIV/AIDS research for FY2016 above FY2015 that your Administration’s budget request publically committed to in February of 2015.
This is a time to prioritize, not cut HIV/AIDS research. NIH-funded HIV/AIDS research has supported innovative basic science for better drug therapies, behavioral and biomedical prevention interventions that have saved and improved the lives of millions. These advances hold great promise for significantly reducing HIV infection rates and providing more effective treatments for those living with HIV/AIDS in the coming decade. Research advances to develop a preventive vaccine and a cure for HIV infection hold the potential to “end the scourge of HIV/AIDS” as you so eloquently stated in your State of the Union address.
Thank you for considering these views.
Sincerely,
[Names of Organizations]
Cc: Shaun Donovan
Dr. Francis Collins
Douglas Brooks
Adaeze Enekwechi
Kimberly Miller, Senior Policy Officer
HIV Medicine Association
1300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: (703) 740-4957
Fax: (703) 299-0204
From: Weddle, Andrea
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 11:42 AM
To: del Rio, MD, Carlos; HIVMA Board Members
Cc: Miller, Kimberly; Lubinski, Christine
Subject: RE: (URGENT) Emergency Organizational Sign on for FY16 HIV Research Funding at the NIH
Below is the update reworked to include an option for individuals to sign on. Please feel free to circulate this version to colleagues.
Support HIV Research at NIH
You helped saved HIV/AIDS research funding before -- now we urgently need your help again to confront a new threat that the Administration will not adhere to it's own FY16 budget request of a $100M increase for HIV research despite the $2 billion increase for NIH allocated by Congress.
This follows the President highlighting the ability to end the HIV epidemic in State of the Union address.
Below is a sign on letter to the President urging him to support the $100 million increase for HIV research promised in his FY16 budget proposal. The letter is being circulated by the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership Research Working Group.
The deadline for sign on is 5 pm ET on January 19th .
To sign an organization on – please complete this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJLFD6S
To sign as an individual – please complete this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HIVresearcher
January 20, 2016
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
As your Administration completes work on finalizing the its FY2016 budget for the National Institutes of Health, we write to ask that the NIH budget include the $100 million increase for HIV/AIDS research for FY2016 above FY2015 that your Administration’s budget request publically committed to in February of 2015.
This is a time to prioritize, not cut HIV/AIDS research. NIH-funded HIV/AIDS research has supported innovative basic science for better drug therapies, behavioral and biomedical prevention interventions that have saved and improved the lives of millions. These advances hold great promise for significantly reducing HIV infection rates and providing more effective treatments for those living with HIV/AIDS in the coming decade. Research advances to develop a preventive vaccine and a cure for HIV infection hold the potential to “end the scourge of HIV/AIDS” as you so eloquently stated in your State of the Union address.
Thank you for considering these views.
Sincerely,
[Names of Organizations]
Cc: Shaun Donovan
Dr. Francis Collins
Douglas Brooks
Adaeze Enekwechi
From: Weddle, Andrea [mailto:awe...@idsociety.org]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 11:11 AM
To: HIVMA Board Members <HIVMABoa...@idsociety.org>
Cc: Miller, Kimberly <kmi...@hivma.org>; Lubinski, Christine <club...@idsociety.org>
Subject: FW: (URGENT) Emergency Organizational Sign on for FY16 HIV Research Funding at the NIH
Importance: High
Please see urgent update from Kim on FY 2016 funding for HIV research at NIH. It appears that the Administration does not plan to adhere to its own FY 2016 budget request for HIV research that included a $100 million increase despite the $2 billion increase for NIH for FY 2016. Please feel free to circulate.
Andrea
From:Fed_AID...@googlegroups.com
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On Behalf Of Miller, Kimberly
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 11:01 AM
To: FAPP (Fed_AID...@googlegroups.com)
Subject: [FAPP] (URGENT) Emergency Organizational Sign on for FY16 HIV Research Funding at the NIH
Importance: High
*** apologies for cross-postings ***
Dear FAPP Colleagues:
You helped saved HIV/AIDS research funding before -- now we urgently need your help again to confront a new threat that the Administration may not adhere to it's own FY16 budget request of a $100M increase for HIV research.
Apologies for the tight–turn and time-sensitive nature of this request, but we have learned there is a real risk that HIV research may not get a dime of the $2B in new NIH dollars allocated by Congress for FY16. The NIH may have already has sent its adjusted FY16 NIH allocations to OMB for approval, so this is a critical last chance to influence the outcome. Flat funding HIV research in the final FY16 NIH allocation would represent a serious set-back, considering the $2B size of the NIH increase, the priority this Administration has placed on addressing HIV/AIDS – including mention of ending the HIV epidemic in the President’s recent State of the Union address – as well as the Administration’s own FY16 budget request for a $100M increase for HIV research.
Below is the sign on letter to the President asking for the Administration’s continued support for a promised $100 million increase for HIV research in FY16, which we believe is now in danger. We are asking for organizational endorsements by COB on February 19th. If your organization can sign on, please sign using the attached form at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BJLFD6S.
Thank you again for all your help which has been critically important in preserving HIV research at NIH.
Best Regards,
FAPP Research Work Group Co-Chairs, Kevin Fisher (AVAC) and Kimberly Miller (HIV Medicine Association)
Kimberly Miller, Senior Policy Officer
HIV Medicine Association
1300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: (703) 740-4957
Fax: (703) 299-0204
January 20, 2016
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
As your Administration completes work on finalizing the its FY2016 budget for the National Institutes of Health, we write to ask that the NIH budget include the $100 million increase for HIV/AIDS research for FY2016 above FY2015 that your Administration’s budget request publically committed to in February of 2015.
This is a time to prioritize, not cut HIV/AIDS research. NIH-funded HIV/AIDS research has supported innovative basic science for better drug therapies, behavioral and biomedical prevention interventions that have saved and improved the lives of millions. These advances hold great promise for significantly reducing HIV infection rates and providing more effective treatments for those living with HIV/AIDS in the coming decade. Research advances to develop a preventive vaccine and a cure for HIV infection hold the potential to “end the scourge of HIV/AIDS” as you so eloquently stated in your State of the Union address.
Thank you for considering these views.
Sincerely,
[Names of Organizations]
Cc: Shaun Donovan
Dr. Francis Collins
Douglas Brooks
Adaeze Enekwechi
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