MAP Advocate
AIDS Advocacy Update
Vol. 7 No. 1
January 25, 2001
Register for AIDS Action Day- February 15, 2001
Governor Recommends HIV Prevention Cut
Ventura Fails to Recommend Funds for HIV K-12 Education
Health Disparities Initiative A Bright Spot
MAP Seeks Privacy Protections and $3.6 M for HIV Education
The State Capitol is the place to be on February 15. You are the one
who can protect HIV funding against proposed budget cuts. The message
is simple: Fight HIV stigma & discrimination through education and
improved privacy protections.
Come ready to tell your story.
It's easy! To register, simply reply to this e-mail or call one of the numbers below. Once you register, MAP will schedule your meetings and provide you with information on the issues. Sessions on the ABCs of lobbying will be provided on AIDS Action Day.
Governor Ventura's budget proposals include a $250,000 cut in HIV prevention.
This is on the heels of the first annual increase in reports of new HIV
infections in years. The money would be transferred to STI prevention.
MAP absolutely supports STI prevention; it is not an either/or proposition.
MAP will advocate for reinstating the cuts and actually increasing HIV
prevention. MAP will also continue work started in 1997 to expand STI
prevention funding.
No money was included in the Governor's budget to continue or expand
K-12 regional sites in Hopkins, Winona, Brainerd, Grand Rapids and Park
Rapids. MAP will advocate to reinstate funding for these sites, and add
another in Greater Minnesota and one in the Twin Cities. The regional
sites work with school districts throughout the state to implement the
school STI and the HIV curriculum requirement.
The administration has proposed a new $13.9, two-year initiative to fight health care disparities affecting racial and ethnic minorities. The funds will go to community-based organizations and local public health to address a wide range of health issues, including HIV and STI prevention. The big question is whether the money will actually find its way into HIV and STI prevention given the equally valid demand of the dozen or so other health concerns the initiative is set up to address.
MAP's legislative action agenda calls for fighting stigma & discrimination through increased education and privacy protections. Twenty years into the epidemic, there are still significant gaps in knowledge of HIV & the misuse of confidential health information, resulting in negative consequences of stigma and discrimination.
MAP's agenda proposes $250,000 a year for general education & awareness targeting greater MN; $1 million a year for health disparities around STI's; $150,000 a year for workplace education and $400,000 a year for school-based HIV/STI training sites. Additionally, MAP will seek to strengthen privacy protections by improving financial penalties for the misuse of HIV and medical information.
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