Legislative Gazette: Health Chairs Join in AIDS Advocates’ Fight

February 23, 2010 marked this year's Albany AIDS Awareness Day, sponsored by the New York AIDS Coalition and the New York HIV Care Networks. (Read the Coalition's Budget Agenda and Policy Agenda)

James Nani of the Legislative Gazette reported on the advocacy day, its goals and supporters:

Health Chairs Join in AIDS Advocates’ Fight

"Members of the New York AIDS Coalition have asked legislators to restore spending for HIV and AIDS services to 2008-2009 budget levels.

"The HIV epidemic has not gone away; this is still a massive concern," said Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, D-Manhattan, at an HIV/AIDS awareness day event in Albany. "

Read the full article here.