National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Both Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain have sent letters to the 2008 United States Conference on AIDS declaring their support for HIV/AIDS efforts. read more

Download the 2009 RFP for the Equal Access Initiative Computer Grants Program, which provides computers and online database training to 100 faith- and community-based organizations nationwide. Learn more at USCA! Applications are due February 7, on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. read more

Thirty national HIV/AIDS organizations and leaders representing communities of color have distributed a press release and a position paper - Fighting HIV/AIDS in Communities of Color: An Action Agenda for the Next President - demanding the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees to address the need for a national HIV/AIDS strategy. read more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in August that re-evaluation of HIV data revealed that over 55,500 new HIV cases occurred each year from 2003-2006 - not 40,000 as previously thought. Read NMAC's statement calling for a comprehensive health response to this report. read more

Visit pictures and view film footage from NMAC's past events online! read more

Read NMAC's reaction and the New York Times story about the CDC's decision to not fund Puerto Rico and eight states in the continental U.S. to use the new HIV monitoring system, which played an instrumental role in revealing that the annual U.S. infections were 40 percent higher than previously estimated. read more

David Winkler-Schmit recently interviewed Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, NMAC's Director of Government Relations and Public Policy and Spokesperson, for his heartbreaking Gambit Magazine cover story of HIV/AIDS service delivery in New Orleans, "What's in Their Wallets?" read more