You Can Help Save Children’s Lives
Today 600 children around the world will be born with HIV/AIDS. That will happen again tomorrow and every day until we have both the resources and the will to end pediatric AIDS.
These children need our help!
Through the support from the US government and other international donors 1 million babies have been born HIV free. So we know it is possible to end new pediatric infections.
Now is the time to redouble our commitment and collective efforts to reach that goal.
Without medical interventions, the transmission rate of HIV from mother to child range from 15 to 45%. Effective diagnosis and treatment programs can reduce that rate to below 5%.
Please join the Children’s AIDS Fund International in supporting H. Res. 265, introduced by Congresswomen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Barbara Lee (D-CA) to recognize the importance of continued US commitment to ending pediatric AIDS worldwide.
The resolution is intended to reaffirm the US commitment to ending mother-to-child HIV transmission and scaling up pediatric HIV treatment access; highlight the impact that HIV/AIDS has on maternal and child mortality; and solidify bi-partisan support for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and key programmatic priorities related to women, children and families.
H.Res. 265 already has some bi-partisan support, but more is needed.
You can take an important step today toward ending pediatric AIDS by calling your Representative in Congress and urging them to support this life-saving measure.
