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Stop the Cuts!

Cutting Funding = Cutting Lives!

Throughout Canada funding for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s AIDS Community Action Program(ACAP) has been frozen and is in the process of being cut. This is despite the fact that the number of new HIV infections in Canada has risen by more than 4,000 per year, which represents at least a 10% increase per year.

These cuts not only injure our communities they also hurt our economy.

Since the direct/indirect cost associated with each HIV infection is $750,000, by preventing as few as 19 new HIV infections in Canada per year, funding for community-based programs becomes cost-effective.

As the complexity and cost of caring for people infected with HIV continues to increase, the cost effectiveness of funding community-based responses increases.

Prevention and education are the only weapons that we have to fight AIDS on the front lines while we wait the decades it will take to create a vaccine and ultimately a cure.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, their community funding (AIDS Community Action Program, “ACAP”) supports

• Prevention Initiatives to prevent HIV in populations known to be vulnerable to HIV
• Health Promotion for People Living with HIV/AIDS to increase the capacity of people living with HIV to manage their condition (services, treatment, support, work, learning), and support for people affected by HIV
• Creating Supportive Environments to reduce social barriers that prevent people living with HIV, those at risk, and those affected from accessing health care and social services. Targeted environments include (but are not limited to): prisons, addiction treatment, professional groups (nurses, educators, pharmacists, physicians, etc.), workplaces, other non-profits, general public
• Strengthening Community Based Organizations to increase the skills and abilities of the people who work at all levels of the community-based HIV movement: board, staff and volunteers.

Send a message to the Federal Government, to Stop the cuts!

If you agree that Federal funding cuts for HIV prevention are a concern in your community, we invite you to send a postcard to the Federal Government. Its free when writing to an elected official.

Canada needs to make a commitment to fight AIDS!

Show your concern and send a postcard to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Treasury Board President Vic Toews, Minister of Health, Tony Clement and your local MP. Let them know that Canada needs a strong response to HIV/AIDS in our communities and they need to stop the cuts and increase the funding as promised.

Your postcards should be printed on card stock paper setting your printer to double sided. OR If you use letter size paper, you will need to put the card in an envelope. You don’t need to put any postage on these cards.

Printed copies of the postcards are avialable upon request. Contact us at info@increaseaidsfunding.ca

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Federal Government Contacts

Name	Area of Responsibility
Right Hon. Stephen Harper	Prime Minister
Jim Flaherty	Finance Minister
Vic Toews	Treasury Board President
Tony Clement	Minister of Health

To Find the name of your local Member of Parliament , locate your MP by using your postal code, click here.

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