Brief
History of Student Global Aids Campaign
What is the student global aids campaign? The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is a national movement with more than 85 chapters at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS in the U.S. and around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action.
What are we fighting for? Fund the Fight. Treat the People. Drop the Debt. Stop the Spread. With 42 million people living with HIV and AIDS around the world, an additional 15,000 becoming infected every day, and 8,200 people dying every day, we need effective and science-based prevention programs and inexpensive, life-saving AIDS medications. In order to accomplish these things, SGAC demands access to treatment, complete funding of the U.S. share of the global HIV and AIDS need, comprehensive prevention programs, fulfilling funding of U.S. prevention and treatment programs, and debt cancellation.
What
does a SGAC chapter do? Student Global AIDS Campaign chapters participate
in national campaigns and actions as well as develop and carryout their
own projects. The work of SGAC chapters includes
• Educating students about the global AIDS crisis and their role in fighting
it by holding teach-ins, film screenings, lectures, etc. on campus
• Lobbying, writing letters, and making phone calls to the President and
members of Congress about global AIDS • Utilizing media and direct
action by holding rallies and press events to galvanize public opinion
in the fight against AIDS
•
Raising money for and partner with organizations fighting AIDS in the U.S.
or abroad
What
have SGAC chapters accomplished?
Student Global AIDS Campaign members and chapters have played a critical
role in some of the most important developments in the fight against global
HIV and AIDS over the last 3 years. Among other things, SGAC has played
a key role in:
•
Winning increased access to healthcare for Coca-Cola’s workers
in Africa;
•
Helping pass several key pieces of HIV & AIDS and orphans legislation;
•
Getting all nine Democratic candidates in the 2004 Presidential election
to announce comprehensive HIV & AIDS platforms and talk about
AIDS on the campaign trail, after President Bush would not;
• Pressuring Congressman Jim Nussle (R-IA), the chair of the House Budget
Committee, to increase the budget proposal for the International
Affairs Account by almost $3 billion (which he said he did because of HIV and
AIDS activists).
How can you help?
Join your school’s SGAC chapter.Student
Global Aids Campaign/L'étudiant campagne globale d'aides;
SGAC, Cameroon;
Tel :( +237)75491933 /99058474
Email: sgaccameroon@yahoo.fr SGAC Cameroon Chapter, REF 0242/ADR/J06/APPA