Faith-Based Coalition for Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria Sends Letter to Congress

On March 24, 225 leaders of faith from across the nation sent a letter to members of Congress calling on them to robustly support the Global Fund this Replenishment year, leading the world with a 1 to 2 match by legislation. 

"As leaders of faith communities across the nation, we are called to care for the most vulnerable, seeing every person in inherently equal dignity. We believe that the United States should continue to prioritize that duty at a time of great need. For more than twenty years, Americans of faith have been proud to support U.S. leadership in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the multistakeholder financing mechanism that has saved more than 65 million lives with its partners around the world.

The Global Fund makes Americans safer by containing devastating pandemics abroad and building commitment of other nations to contribute to arresting these potential threats. Americans are more secure when desperate problems in other countries are dealt with locally without these problems spreading uncertainty here at home. And the success of the Global Fund makes Americans more prosperous by freeing women and men in low- and lower-middle income countries from illnesses so that they thrive with their God-given gifts as workers, consumers, and economic partners. These benefits of removing human harm and insecurity - a moral mission, are reaped while large economic growth occurs when countries are freed from the threat of AIDS, TB and Malaria."

We are proud to take this letter to the Hill for an Advocacy Day with Friends of the Global Fight on Wednesday, March 26 to deliver to members’ offices representing the states of Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Oklahoma with faith leaders Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, Rev. Jon Middendorf, Troy Jackson, Elizabeth Kurtgeri, and Jose Duran.