According to State House News (email 1/28/10), Thursday's advocacy groups included...
"Massachusetts Family Planning Association Advocacy Day. Family planning providers, counselors, community health educators and teen peer leaders attend. Speakers include Senate President Therese Murray, second Assistant Majority Leader Patricia Haddad, state Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach, and Clare Coleman, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association...
Project ABLE will gather for a Lobby Day to advocate for maintenance of HIV/AIDS funding in FY 2011. The speaking part of the program begins at 12:30 and Senate President Therese Murray, John Auerbach, Commissioner of Public Health, Rep. Carl Sciortino, and Se. Chang-Diaz are confirmed speakers. There will also be speakers from Tapestry Health in Springfield and Cambridge Cares About AIDS and two consumers of HIV/AIDS services. Participants will be lobbying their legislators and asking them to maintain funding and oppose any further budget cuts to the HIV/AIDS Line Item (4512-0103) which is currently funded at $35.35 million."
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