2010-07-31 | Welcome

Mission Statement:

The Committee of Ten Thousand is a grass-roots, peer-led, education, advocacy and support organization for persons with HIV disease. The majority of our constituency is persons with hemophilia who contracted HIV/AIDS from tainted blood products. We work in solidarity with all communities affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. COTT advocates for disenfranchised chronic disease communities, especially those communities dependent on a safe national blood supply. We are dedicated to the belief that persons with HIV/AIDS and all chronic diseases can lead productive and healthy lives. In the pursuit of our mission, COTT is committed to the following objectives:

  • To provide timely and credible HIV/AIDS treatment information
  • To ensure a safe and available national blood supply through vigilant community advocacy and action
  • To codify consumer/client participation at all levels of the federal medical regulatory structure, FDA, NIH, CDC, HCFA and Congress in the areas of product safety, standard of care & research, and health care financing.
  • To aggressively pursue resolution of economic & social justice for persons with hemophilia who were infected with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
  • To be a voice of empowerment & advocacy for the hemophilia/AIDS community and other disenfranchised chronic disease communities by providing peer-led psycho/social programs rooted in personal and community empowerment.

Vision:

COTT is committed to working within the context of broad collaborative efforts and coalition building with a wide array of communities, agencies, organizations, and individuals who seek control individual over their own health care. A central theme of the COTT is the development and implementation of programmatic initiatives which illuminate an empowerment road map for the diverse communities impacted by HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases/disorders. We believe that health is a right and not a privilege and seek to create a world where the health and well being of all peoples replaces profit as the priority.
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Washington Update is a bi-monthly primer on government related issues of importance to COTT's constituency. From health care legislation, to regulatory affairs to Administration policy for chronic diseases. A hands-on journal for grass roots health care advocacy in our Nation's capital.

COTT News A range of information, reportage and viewpoints regarding issues and events of importance to grass roots health care advocacy and support. In COTTÂ’s vision information is power and part of the empowered community equation. From Washington D.C. to State capitals to the HIH and the FDA, look to COTT for grass roots health care news.

COTT Canary tracks safety issues in our Nation's blood supply. It provides regular reporting, information and viewpoints from the grass roots end user communities. It is based on the historical practice of taking Canaries into the coalmines to gauge problems with breathable air. If the Canary passed out then it was time to evacuate the mine. Persons with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders are the canaries in the coalmine, the blood supply. If problems are present they will surface first in the hemophilia community.

Treatment Updates: News, information and analysis about living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and hemophilia and related problems associated with living with multiple life threatening diseases.