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Physicians for Human Rights has joined dozens of other organizations throughout the nation in endorsing the recently introduced PATHWAY Act (Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2007). If passed, this bill will eliminate the current requirement in US law that one third of all global HIV/AIDS prevention funding from the US go toward programs that promote abstinence until marriage. This requirement has been based on ideology and political formulas, not on the scientific evidence that shows that more comprehensive programs are more effective than abstinence-only ones in preventing HIV transmission and saving lives.

Women in the developing world, who often do not have the power to determine whether to choose abstinence, will particularly benefit from this bill and programs that are better tailored to their specific needs.

Please contact your US Representative and urge him or her to co-sponsor this important bill.

If your Representative is already a co-sponsor*, please replace the first sentence of your letter with the following: "I thank you for co-sponsoring the PATHWAY Act. I urge you to support the Act's swift passage into law."

* You can check the list of PATHWAY co-sponsors on the Library of Congress website. To find out who your representative is, visit PHR's elected officials look-up page. To learn more about this bill and other organizations that have supported it, visit PEPFAR Watch.

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