Tell Congress to Continue Supporting The Fight Against HIV & AIDS

Our United Methodist commitment to addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic is rooted in our unwavering covenant of care and advocacy. (2016 Book of Resolutions, #3241; #3243)

The largely bipartisan President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has successfully done this work since its inception in 2003. Spending over $100 billion across more than 50 countries to treat and prevent HIV, this initiative has saved more than 25 million lives.

As the United States Congress considers reauthorization of PEPFAR, we must advocate for the bills’ immediate passage.

Aligning with the request of the Biden Administration through a recent op-ed, President George W. Bush urged Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR for another five years without delay. Failure to do so would not only cause several programmatic provisions to end after September 30th but would signal diminishing support from U.S. leadership in the battle against AIDS.

Having been previously reauthorized four times, PEPFAR is heralded as the U.S. government’s signature global health initiative to address HIV and AIDS. Our United Methodist response to the global AIDS pandemic is to commit ourselves to a holistic approach of awareness, education, prevention, treatment, community, organizing, and public advocacy. (2016 Book of Resolutions #3243)

Use the form below to tell your representative now to ensure a clean reauthorization of PEPFAR so that this much needed work might continue for years to come.