Mission
Beyond AIDS is committed to reversing the global HIV epidemic through sound public health policy.
GOALS
To control the HIV epidemic and save lives through early identification of HIV infected individuals, facilitation of access to care, and prevention of further transmission.OBJECTIVES
- Control the HIV epidemic and save lives through early identification of HIV-infected individuals, facilitation of access to care, and prevention of further transmission.
- Insist that Public Health services return to their inherent duty to control deadly disease. For HIV, this requires confidential testing of the population and reporting of all infected individuals.
- Require that HIV positive individuals, after appropriate notification and counseling, be held accountable for preventing transmission to others.
- Demand that Public Health services notify contacts and provide infected persons with counseling, referrals for early and compassionate treatment, and assistance in maintaining low risk behaviors and treatment compliance, including followup as needed.
DECLARATIONS OF BEYOND AIDS: THE PRINCIPLES WE STAND FOR
(Updated December 12. 2010)
Decades into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, victory is not yet in sight and therefore better approaches are needed for better results.
- Stopping the AIDS epidemic will require early identification of every HIV-infected individual, and assistance to infected persons to avoid further transmission.
- Routine and universal testing and reporting of all infections to Public Health services are imperative.
- Beyond AIDS seeks to promote not merely what is currently politically feasible, but what is ultimately necessary to one day see a world without HIV.
All of humanity is threatened by HIV/AIDS and should be involved in the struggle to control it.
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It is the responsibility of everyone to avoid HIV exposure.
- By politicizing HIV as a personal rights issue instead of treating HIV as a communicable disease, we fail to protect the uninfected.
- Rational fear of HIV is appropriate but discrimination against the infected is not.
Public Health, healthcare providers, and people with HIV share responsibility for control and reversal of the epidemic.
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Public Health services must return to their inherent duty of controlling diseases.
- Public Health services must educate on the basic principles of disease prevention.
- HIV/AIDS remains a public health emergency and must not be treated as a public health exception.
- The ultimate control of HIV is in the hands and hearts of the HIV infected.
- It is imperative to empower the infected to live their lives with honor and the understanding that the virus stops with them.
- It is a crime against all humanity to knowingly expose others to HIV.
- Disease control and prevention should always be compassionate.
Beyond AIDS