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Action needed on AIDS legislation

There is exciting activity happening on the reauthorization of the PEPFAR AIDS legislation. (PEPFAR = President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).

JRF is a partner with the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) in the Jewish Coalition Responding to HIV/AIDS in Africa.

The PEPFAR legislation will be "marked-up" in the House foreign affairs committee on Wednesday, February 27th at 9:30 am (and may be televised on C-SPAN).

There are two important action items:

  1. A conference call with Ruth Messinger on Monday, February 25, 2-3pm
  2. An email action alert

More details follow below:

On Monday, February 25, listen in/participate on a conference call with Ruth Messinger, Executive Director of AJWS, and member of the SAJ (Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a Reconstructionist synagogue in NYC).

    Monday, February 25, 2007
    2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
    Dial-in number: 1.888.253.4037
    Passcode: 575541

Follow this link to e-mail your congress-person about PEPFAR. Fill in the information, edit the text (if you wish), and hit the *send* button.

At most, this will take you THREE MINUTES. Please take this action now, send the link to at least 20 other people asking them to take the action, and them to forward to 20 others.

Visit here for more information on PEPFAR, and the work of AJWS addressing the global AIDS pandemic.