ADOPTED - NOVEMBER 8, 2005

Agenda Item No. 20

Introduced by the Human Services Committee of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CAMPAIGN TO END AIDS (C2EA)

RESOLUTION #05-302

WHEREAS, the Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) is a new national grassroots movement supported by AIDS  advocacy and community groups across the country; and

WHEREAS, together, the Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) is demanding that our leaders exert the political will to stop the epidemic, in the U.S. and abroad, once and for all in small towns and big cities across America; and

WHEREAS, the Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) is organizing hundreds of local events and ten cross-country caravans to take the message to Washington, D.C.; and

WHEREAS, their mission is to demand that leaders fully fund quality treatment and support services for all people living with HIV everywhere; ramp up HIV prevention at home and abroad, guided by science rather than ideology; increase research to find a cure, more effective treatments, better prevention tools; and to fight the AIDS stigma and protect the civil rights of all people with HIV and AIDS everywhere; and

WHEREAS, the Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) will urge lawmakers to reauthorize and fully fund the Ryan White CARE Act; keep Medicaid strong for people with HIV/AIDS and all other beneficiaries; strengthen the global fight against AIDS by fully funding the Global Fund and backing 100 percent debt cancellation; and restore and revive effective HIV prevention worldwide based on the best science.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners hereby supports the Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) and their efforts to ensure the best treatment and care for all HIV-positive people and HIV prevention methods backed by good science and to improve the quality of life of those with HIV and AIDS.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Clerk forward copies of this resolution to U.S. Representative Mike Rogers, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow and U.S. Senator Carl Levin.

HUMAN SERVICES:  Yeas:  Hertel, Weatherwax-Grant, Celentino, Dedden, Holman, Severino

      Nays:   None              Absent:  None   Approved 11/7/05