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200 Organizations Request White House to Reconsider HIV/AIDS Funding Policy

On 18 May 2005, two hundred NGOs signed on to a letter requesting President George Bush to rethink a policy to require US-based organizations to adopt organization-wide positions opposing prostitution.

Current U.S. law requires organizations receiving U.S. global HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking funds to adopt specific organization-wide positions opposing prostitution. Until recently, these restrictions have been applied to foreign non-governmental organizations receiving U.S. HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking funds. A September 2004 opinion letter by the U.S. Department of Justice, however, proposes expanding these policies to U.S.-based organizations. Both U.S. AIDS law and anti-trafficking law also bar the use of funds, variously, to "promote, support, or advocate the legalization or practice of prostitution."

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Copy of the Letter