International Issues -- Newsletter Available

AIDS TREATMENT NEWS editor John S. James has volunteered to
edit a newsletter for the Global AIDS Action Network (GAAN),
on international AIDS advocacy. The new GAAN Bulletin will
appear four times a year. GAAN -- founded by Paul Boneberg,
who also founded the San Francisco-based Mobilization Against
AIDS -- is now one year old.

GAAN has already made an important difference. Last year,
huge funding cuts (over 30 percent) were proposed for the
AIDS programs of the U.S. Agency for International
Development. GAAN played a major role in the successful
effort to oppose those cuts, which ultimately were held to
about five percent.

If current trends continue, an estimated 40 to 100 million
people will be infected with HIV by the year 2,000. What is
done now can greatly reduce the ultimate toll. Because of the
current neglect of international AIDS issues, GAAN can be
critically important. Its primary mission is not do do
advocacy itself, but to assist other AIDS organizations in
doing international advocacy through agencies of their own
governments, through international agencies such as the
United Nations, and through private organizations.

For a copy of the GAAN Bulletin, or for other information,
contact GAAN, P.O. Box 376, Lagunitas, CA 94938, phone
(message) 415/448-1453, email globalaids@aol.com.