Copy of Sign On Letter to President Barack Obama

                                                                           January 19, 2016

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

As your Administration completes work on finalizing its FY2016 operating budget for the National Institutes of Health, we write to ask that the NIH budget include the $100 million increase for HIV/AIDS research for FY2016 above FY2015 that your Administration’s budget request publically committed to in February of 2015. 

This is a time to prioritize, not cut HIV/AIDS research. NIH-funded HIV/AIDS research has supported innovative basic science for better drug therapies, behavioral and biomedical prevention interventions that have saved and improved the lives of millions. These advances hold great promise for significantly reducing HIV infection rates and providing more effective treatments for those living with HIV/AIDS in the coming decade. Research advances to develop a preventive vaccine and a cure for HIV infection hold the potential to “end the scourge of HIV/AIDS” as you so eloquently stated in your State of the Union address. 

Thank you for considering these views.

Sincerely,

[Names of Organizations] 


Cc: Shaun Donovan        
      Dr. Francis Collins
      Douglas Brooks
      Adaeze Enekwechi