TimeToDeliver.org: Activist Blog at the International AIDS Conference

TimeToDeliver.org is an independent, uncensored blog project at the International AIDS Conference being held August 13-18 in Toronto, Canada. The blog will go live on August 8.

TimeToDeliver.org will provide highlights from conference sessions and related events, bring reports and materials from direct actions, rallies and community efforts, and talk back to coverage of the conference. We will expose misinformation and hypocrisy, promote open debate, and bring the real voices and images of people with HIV and allies at the conference through multimedia postings.

The blog will be open to public posting and comment. It will include coverage on:
-- United States domestic and global policies
-- prevention research and policies: including funding issues, HIV testing, prevention technologies, and links between prevention and treatment
-- discrimination and stigma as not just individual attitudes but as promoted by public policies and programs
-- drug users issues and research
-- jails, prisons and the system of incarceration
-- racial justice
-- women living with HIV
-- gay men and other men who have sex with men
-- youth

TimeToDeliver.org is sponsored by the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) and Harm Reduction Coalition, but our contributors are solely responsible for their content.

Correspondents include:

• Luciano Colonna, Harm Reduction Project
• Anne-Christine D’Adesky, WE-ACTX
• Corey Dubin, Committee of Ten Thousand / Coyote Radio
• Richard Jefferys, Treatment Action Group (TAG)
• Kayley Harrington, Advocates for Youth
• Mark McLaurin, NY State Black Gay Network / National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition
• David Munar, AIDS Foundation of Chicago
• Jim Pickett, International Rectal Microbicide Working Group
• Walt Senterfitt, Being Alive/LA, CHAMP
• Waheedah Shabazz-El, ACT UP Philadelphia

The Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) is an educator, watchdog and advocatecommitted to HIV prevention as a human right linked to social, racial and economic justice.

We bring together policy analysis, communications and grass roots advocacy in order to educate the media, improve HIV prevention policies and accelerate development of new prevention options. CHAMP is dedicated to changing policies today, while identifying, training and mobilizing the next generation of the AIDS movement for our future struggles.

The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) is committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. The Harm Reduction Coalition believes in every individual's right to health and well-being as well as in their
competency to protect and help themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.

CHAMP and the Harm Reduction Coalition are members of the Caucus for Evidence-Based Prevention, a coalition of US-based non-governmental organizations and their international partners. The Caucus will provide expert guidance on new developments in prevention presented in Toronto and the importance of global HIV prevention based on sound scientific evidence.