| Advocacy Letters and Statements of Support ANSA organized advocacy letters and statements of support from international artists and organizations for the Treatment Action Campaign's February 14, 2003, Stand Up for Our Lives march in Cape Town. TAC was joined in this march by numerous South African groups and over 20,000 South African AIDS activists, who marched in a firm but friendly spirit to call on their government to sign and implement a comprehensive prevention, care and treatment plan, the outline of which has already been negotiated between the government and labor, business, religious, activist and NGO organizations. ANSA organized an artists' statement, signed by more than 45 prominent artists, including: Debbie Allen, Jackson Browne, Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen, Jonathan Demme, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Danny Glover, Robert Guillaume, Samuel L. Jackson & LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Quincy Jones, Edward James Olmos, Julia Ormond, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos & Deborah Santana, Sharon Stone and Alfre Woodard. The statement was sent to South African government officials and was read by South African actors at a Cape Town press conference organized by the TAC. ANSA and Health GAP organized a letter signed by over 70 organizations around the globe, including Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, ACT UP, TransAfrica Forum, Global Exchange, American Jewish World Service, Gay Men's Health Crisis, International Labor Rights Fund, American Medical Students Association, Africa Action, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. Global Fund Advocacy Efforts The Global Fund Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is an international, independent public-private partnership designed to attract and manage significant new sums of money to finance the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. ANSA is working to advocate for the United States government to contribute their fair share to finance the bankrupt Global Fund. ANSA has signed on to numerous advocacy letters and petitions, as well as an important initiative called the Fund the Fund Campaign . The Fund promotes advocacy for increased investment in the Global Fund by involving civil society, including non-governmental and faith-based organizations, community groups, trade unions and people living with HIV/AIDS.    Photographer: Jonas Bunte |