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Green Party Platform:
AIDS/ HIV

All people, including those with AIDS/ HIV, have a right to adequate medical care and also protection from discrimination.

Government has a responsibility to protect and advance the health of the public. The AIDS epidemic has been inadequately addressed at both the state and federal levels. We have offered inadequate education on the subject, and have inadequately funded medical treatment of those stricken.

The Green Party calls for a humane and adequate handling of this sickness:

• Increase funding for AIDS education, care and research with emphasis on preventive education.

• Provide access to AIDS treatment and medication for all those affected. Accordingly, funding should be increased to keep up with the AIDS case load.

• Apply special funding for research into treating afflicted women.

• Quicken the approval of AIDS drugs by the FDA.

• Target the young for timely education about AIDS and ways of preventing it. We should distribute condoms in schools.

• Provide housing for people afflicted with AIDS and who are at risk of homelessness.

• Organize needle exchange programs.

• Protect the confidentiality of all people diagnosed with AIDS or HIV.

• Ban all mandatory testing for HIV.

• Lift the ban prohibiting HIV positive people from entering the U.S. as visitors or as immigrants.