The CDC's Division of HIV Prevention is under attack.

$31 million is at stake in Illinois, serving thousands of people.

Please take action. Phone calls are needed tonight and tomorrow!

Please use the AIDS United Action Alert link below. 

Please call your Senators and Representatives and tell them to do everything they can to stop these cuts. Find your elected officials by calling the US Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 (Senate); 202-225-3121 (House), or find your legislator here.

There is a call script at the "Take Action" link below that you can use when you call.

You can learn more about the funding at stake in the CDC's 2023 Grants Summary Profile Report for Illinois.

AIDS United gives us the facts:

• Prevention provides a huge return on investment. A lifetime of medical costs for a person with HIV can be in excess of $500,000 (adjusted for inflation).
• The flagship Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program cannot pick up the slack of these lost resources. The Program cannot cover prevention services.
• Prevention programming currently supported by CDC will either be lost completely or passed onto the states to cover. State budgets are tight and it’s likely states cannot afford to replace these lost resources.

“Is HIV Still a Thing?”  The reason people can ask this question -- and they have -- is because we have poured resources into HIV prevention for decades now, successfully slowing the spread of HIV, making it a less visible but still present disease. In fact, Illinois is on track to end the HIV epidemic by Getting to Zero new HIV infections by 2030. Eliminating HIV prevention funding at this point in the epidemic could easily send us back to infection rates similar to those we saw in the 1980s and 1990s.

HIV prevention requires resources.

Please call, and please share this alert with your friends and neighbors. Ask them to call, too. Lives depend on it.

Thank you to our partners who have been doing this work for decades.

In Solidarity,

Karen A. Reitan

President and Chief Executive Officer

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