HAPPENING NOW: AIDS ADVOCATES ARE OUTSIDE THE US STATE DEPARTMENT TO PROTEST TRUMP AND RUBIOS FREEZE ON AID AND ATTACKS ON PEPFAR IMPACTING 20 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV WORLDWIDE.

We are outside the U.S. State Department NOW to demand action. Activists are rallying, chanting, and risking arrest to say: NO CUTS to PEPFAR."HANDS OFF PEPFAR!" . #SavePEPFAR #EndAIDS

Protests have erupted outside of the State Department in Washington, DC, over Trump's executive order freezing foreign aid, which has crippled PEPFAR and interrupted access to HIV treatment refills to up to 220,000 people per day, per an amfAR estimate.

Sending love & power to VOCAL-NY leader Asia Betancourt for standing w Housing Works & AIDS Activists to stop Trump & Rubio for denying 20M ppl lifesaving meds! ACT UP FIGHT BACK FIGHT AIDS

Thank you, POZ Magazine, for highlighting our powerful demonstration in DC urging the reauthorization of #PEPFAR. This fight is about saving lives—we must act now! 🗣️📢 Read more: poz.com/article/now-th…

For years, NYC & by extension nychealthy has suffered a 2019 Cuomo cut to our city public health $. NYC was the only one who got cut. Article 6 $ supports critical programs NYC needs to combat health crises. This is unjust and dangerous. It must be restored.

NYC has been shortchanged for healthcare funding for too long! Thank you to Acting Commissioner Morse for joining Jessica González-Rojas (votejgr.bsky.social) Gustavo Rivera Lynn Schulman 舒曼琳 in the fight for this common sense reform. 💰

HAPPENING NOW: AIDS activists disrupt USAID hearing demanding a full restoration of #PEPFAR, a global AIDS program that has saved over 26M lives. “PEPFAR SAVES LIVES! RESTORE AIDS FUNDING NOW!”

Breaking: demonstrators on Capitol Hill demand PEPFAR restoration now! SAVE USAID SAVE LIVES

Pro-⁦PEPFAR⁩ protesters just got arrested at the Cannon building in Congress. #foreignaidfreeze

For my final post on X (for the foreseeable future), covering a protest at Cannon House Office Building for Washington Blade. Activists arrested following protest against cuts to PEPFAR and USAID.

Pro-⁦PEPFAR⁩ protest in Congress a few minutes ago.

AIDS FUNDING CUTS KILL! #PEPFAR SAVES LIVES!

Today in D.C., our Housing Works and other healthcare advocates staged a powerful civil disobedience at Peter Marocco’s office—the architect behind USAID’s shutdown. Ten arrests were made as we stood up for justice. We are not backing down. Marocco has blood on his hands.

This week we joined Popular Democracy💥 at the Save Our Healthcare March to fight GOP's plan to gut Medicaid by $880B—risking care for 80M Americans and funneling tax breaks to billionaires. We demand healthcare for all! #SaveOurHealthcare #MedicaidMatters

A group of NYers were just arrested at the State Capitol during a peaceful protest calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to provide statewide housing assistance for people with HIV/AIDS. *Unstable housing is the single strongest predictor of failed HIV treatment.* Housing Works