GOP 2011 spending plan = death

Last Friday, House Republicans announced their 2011 budget proposal, including $813 million in cuts to global AIDS programs.

Here's what that would mean:

• Over 1 million people with AIDS, mostly poor people of color in the global south, will die because they will lose access to AIDS treatment, or never get it to begin with;
• 68,000 babies will be born with HIV because their mothers can't get medication to prevent transmission;
• Over 400,000 people with TB won't be able to get treatment;
• And they're trying to reinstate the federal ban on funding of syringe exchange, which would deny life-saving prevention tools to drug users in the US and worldwide.

This is bad news to people with HIV across the globe. You can read more on Health GAP's website here.