H.I.V. Prevention Justice Alliance Joins Caring Across Generations Coalition

New York – The H.I.V. Prevention Justice Alliance announced April 17th that they will be joining the new movement, Caring Across Generations, a national coalition of organizations including women, disability rights, older adult, worker, community, youth, student and caregiver organizations.  Caring Across Generations is a movement that is changing the way we care in this country, ensuring that direct care workers have the rights and respect they deserve and that those who receive services are free to stay in their homes with respect and dignity.

“The voices, experience and expertise that the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance brings are precisely what we need to strengthen the Caring Across Generations campaign,” said Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and co-director of the Caring Across Generations coalition.  “We have a lot to learn from the years of work to ensure quality services and care for people living with HIV. We are thrilled to welcome the Alliance, and look forward to building the movement we need together.”

“In the HIV/AIDS community, we know that truly confronting HIV depends on protecting what we have – Medicaid, Medicare, social security, and other programs – and creating what we need — like a comprehensive system of care for all — to finally break the back of the epidemic.” said Kiesha McCurtis, co-chair of the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA). “We know how to end the epidemic in this country, if we have the political will – and this campaign is part of the solution.”

Caring Across Generations seeks to build a new movement of everyday people to transform long-term care. The coalition is introducing federal legislation to create 2 million new, quality jobs in home care; improve access to care and support services; develop career advancement models and a path to citizenship for domestic and home care workers; improve and expand Medicare and Medicaid along with an industrial strength solution to affordability challenges for those paying out-of-pocket for care.

“People living with HIV, our families and loved ones have seen first hand that in-home support and services can literally be the difference between living with dignity and dying before our time,” said Dee Borrego, co-chair of the Economic Justice Working Group of the HIV PJA. “The Caring Across Generations campaign brings full-scale solutions to the crisis in home care, and not a moment too soon.”

The HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) is a coalition of more than 80 organizations and a network of 13,000 individuals working at the intersection of HIV/AIDS, human rights, and struggles for social, racial, gender, and economic justice. Since 2007, their network of thousands of people living with HIV, activists, researchers, service providers, and change-makers is mobilizing in the fight for human rights and HIV prevention justice.