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A Conversation with Rep. Barbara Lee at IAC
August 14, 2008 | RH Reality Check
Once again, Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) is the sole member of the U.S. Congress to attend the International AIDS Conference. On Tuesday, I caught up with Rep. Lee to learn how her involvement builds progressive momentum globally and in the U.S.
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A Thank You to Congresswoman Barbara Lee
August 12, 2008 | RH Reality Check
When I posed a question during the session as to what we, young people, should demand of our next president, Congresswoman Lee, without any hesitation, came up with a very comprehensive list of demands that included: the repeal of the global gag rule, integration of family planning services and comprehensive sexual education into PEPFAR, removal of the prostitution pledge, and finding an effective way to address gender violence.
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Barbara Lee: We need a domestic war on AIDS
August 06, 2008 | Contra Costa Times
[Barbara] Lee coauthored the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) back in 2003, as well as the recent reauthorization which puts $48 billion toward helping millions of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. She told me this afternoon she wishes progress in fighting the disease here in the United States would be so successful.
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Policymakers Call for New National AIDS Strategy for the United States
August 05, 2008 | Free Speech Radio News
The Centers for Disease Control released a report indicating that the number of new people infected by HIV in the United States is much higher than previously estimated -- 40% HIGHER.
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Lee backs bill to ease pot laws
July 31, 2008 | San Francisco Gate
Two Bay Area congresswomen joined a half-dozen fellow House members Wednesday in proposing to end federal prosecution for marijuana possession.
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Lee praises Bush for signing new global AIDS law
July 31, 2008 | Contra Costa Times
President Bush was flanked by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and Annette Lantos -- widow of the late House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo -- yesterday as he signed the H.R. 5501, the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.
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Fighting AIDS pandemic abroad...and at home
July 30, 2008 | San Francisco Chronicle
It's past time our government stopped turning a blind eye to our national AIDS epidemic. Far greater support is needed for community responses to the epidemic in Black America, especially through the Minority AIDS Initiative, which was created by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters when she chaired the Congressional Black Caucus. We must develop a national AIDS strategy and fund HIV prevention initiatives designed for African Americans.
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Citizens-to-be attend Oakland workshop
July 27, 2008 | San Francisco Chronicle
Dozens of East Bay residents filed into a vacant storefront in Oakland's Fruitvale district Saturday to begin the often long and daunting process of becoming U.S. citizens.
