Committee on Psychology and AIDS Advocacy Campaign

PPO launched a coordinated grassroots advocacy campaign with the APA Committee on Psychology and AIDS (COPA) in Spring 2004. With guidance from PPO staff, the COPA members advocated for increased funding for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990, which provides essential health-care and mental health services to medically underserved individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS. The Ryan White CARE Act needs $3.1 billion to address the needs of the close to 1 million people who the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates are living with HIV/AIDS--$2 billion more than the president’s budget requests.

Below are some photographs from these meetings

Meeting with staff of Senator George Allen (R-VA)
		L-R: Dr. Sherry Dyche Ceperich, Dr. Karen Ingersoll, and Dr. Karen Cropsey preparing to teleconference with Jason Money of Sen. George Allen's staff on May 25, 2004

Meeting with staff of Senator John Warner (R-VA)
		L-R: AIDS advocate Donna Marshall, Sen. Warner's Legislative Counsel, Chris Yanilos and Dr. Maureen Lyon on May 21, 2004.
Meeting with staff of Senator Mikulski (D-MD)
		L-R: Keysha Brooks-Coley, legislative aide responsible for HIV issues in Senator Mikulski's (D-MD) office and Javier G. Salazar on June 3, 2004.

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