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NMAC Lifeline - Thursday, April 30, 2009 Save-the-Date for the Next NMAC Stakeholder Call Mark your calendars for NMAC's second Stakeholder Call, set for Friday, May 22, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. EST, featuring guest speaker Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP). He will be discussing the CDC's new HIV/AIDS awareness campaign, Act Against AIDS. To participate, just dial (605) 475-6333 and type in access code: 481162. Due to the large number of participants expected, the call is not planned to be an open forum. You may submit your questions for Dr. Fenton in advance, however, via communications@nmac.org until Thursday, May 22, 2009, 5 p.m. EST. Follow NMAC on Twitter! NMAC's now sending out regular "tweets" through its Twitter site, NMACCommunity - click here to start following us today!   NMAC has announced new dates for its SOAR training-of-trainers (TOT) series. These three day training session certify professional trainers to deliver courses in Strategic Planning, Human Resources, Fund Development and Proposal Writing, Board Development, Financial Management and Budget Basics, and Coalition Building to Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) providing HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services throughout the United States. For more information, please contact: Myrtelina Gonzalez * (202) 483- 6622 ext. 310 * mgonzalez@nmac.org  Jaime Gonzalez * (202) 483- 6622 ext. 322 * jgonzalez@nmac.org  A Kaiser Family Foundation survey revealed that Americans’ sense of urgency about HIV/AIDS as a national health problem has fallen dramatically and their concern about HIV as a personal risk has also declined, even among some groups at higher risk. Read more about this important survey on the Kaiser Family Foundation website here. While there, sign up to receive the new Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, a daily newsletter covering HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, nutrition, water and sanitation, polio, and maternal and child health, as well as funding, financing and health systems. May 6 marks the deadline for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS grant proposals in the following categories: * Emergency Assistant Programs * One-Time Expense Requests * Direct Serivces (Non-Food Programs) * Substance Abuse and Harm Reduction * Quality of life June 15, 2009 is last day to submit proposals to the MAC AIDS Fund's Housing Community Grants program. A call for entries has been announced for the REYATAZ® (atazanavir sulfate) “Fight HIV Your Way” Contest for photographs with essays or videos that express the individual fight against HIV/AIDS of people who are infected with or affected by the disease. The goal of the contest is to help raise awareness about HIV/AIDS among the general public and inspire people impacted by the disease to continue their fight. Through May 15, 2009, individuals ages 18 and older can submit entries online at fightHIVyourway.com or mail in their entries.   An expert panel of judges will evaluate the contest entries based on the impact of the photographs’ or videos’ visual or verbal expression of how to fight HIV, creativity, originality and overall artistic quality. Contest judges include HIV community advocate Frank Oldham, artist and photographer David Martinez, and POZ magazine editor-in-chief Regan Hofmann. Final selection of the two Grand Prize Winners - one video and one photograph - will be determined by the public via online voting. The entries of the Grand Prize Winners and 90 additional Award of Distinction winners will be showcased in a public exhibit in Union Square, San Francisco, from Oct. 27-29, 2009. The 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference, set for August 23-26, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, in Atlanta, GA, has announced a call for late breaker abstracts. Submissions are being accepted now until May 15, 2009. For more information, click here. The meeting also invites organizations to display materials in the NGO Village, set for August 24, 2009, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. To be considered, you must be registered for the conference and submit the "NGO Table Reservation Form" by July 31, 2009, along with proof of nonprofit status. Click here for more information. Information about registration, abstracts and general exhibiting at NHPC is available here. The National Library of Medicine Announces HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects 2009 (NLM-09-078/SES)  The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers. Click here for more information. Quotations are due to NLM on Monday, June 1, 2009. Projects must involve one or more of the following information access categories: information retrieval; skills development; state-of-the-art resources; resource development; and document access. Emphasis is placed upon the following types of organizations or arrangements for developing these programs: * Community-based organizations (CBOs) or patient advocacy groups currently providing HIV/AIDS-related serves to the affected community * Public libraries serving communities in the provision of HIV/AIDS-related information and resources * Health departments or other local, municipal, or state agencies working to improve public health * Faith-based organizations currently providing HIV/AIDS-related services * Multi-type consortia of the above-listed organizations that may be in existence or formed specifically for this project. Standard Awards are offered for up to $60,000; Express Awards are offered for up to $10,000. Visit details for the 2009 HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects online. Previously funded HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects may be read here. Primary Point of Contact: Shari E. Shor, Contract Specialist, shorse@mail.nlm.nih.gov, Telephone: (301) 435-4388, Fax: 301-402-0642 Secondary Point of Contact: Robin D. Hope-Williams, Contracting Officer, rhwilli@mail.nih.gov, Telephone: 301-435-4379, Fax: 301-402-8169   GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Announce Innovative Agreement to Create a New World-Leading, Specialist HIV Company GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) and Pfizer Inc (PFE) recently announced they have entered into an agreement to create a new world-leading HIV company focused solely on research, development and commercialization of HIV medicines. Click here to learn more and watch an interview with Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline. National American Indian AIDS Summit 2009, July 14-15, in Rochester, NY The Liberty Research Group, an all volunteer agency advocating for those individuals living with HIV/AIDS from all segments of communities of color and those less served in low-income communities throughout the U.S.A., is proud to announce the National American Indian AIDS Summit 2009, set for July 14-15, in Rochester, NY, at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. The theme of this year's meeting is "Keeping the Promise....United We Stand at the Crossroads." The conference has issued a call for abstracts for those who wish to present workshops and roundtable discussions. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. EST. To obtain a copy of the call for abstracts, send an e-mail to calvinwoguns@ymail.com.   Pedro Comes to DVD June 30th On June 30, Wolfe Video will release the biopic, Pedro, written by Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, which chronicles the life of openly gay and HIV-positive activist Pedro Zamora, who captured the hearts of millions on the San Francisco edition of MTV's The Real World, in 1994. The film premiered this past April 1 on MTV, mtvU, LOGO and MTV Tr3s. For more information about Zamora, discussion guides and/or to watch the film online, visit Pedro online.

NMAC WEB CALENDAR Visit NMAC's Online Calendar for more event and grant details. KEEPING UP WITH NMAC Join the NMAC Group! Follow NMAC on Twitter NMAC's on YouTube View NMAC pics online UPCOMING EVENTS May 15-17, 2009 The American Conference For The Treatment of HIV May 16-19, 2009 AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families Voices 2009 Conference May 18, 2009 HIV Vaccine Awareness Day May 18, 2009 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day May 19, 2009 National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day May 19, 2009 World Hepatitis Day May 22, 2009 NMAC Stakeholder Call - Featuring Guest Speaker Dr. Kevin Fenton, 1:00 p.m. EST  May 27-29, 2009 SOAR Training-of-Trainers, Seattle, WA June 1, 2009 Pedro Released on DVD June 8, 2009 Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day June 11-12, 2009 SOAR, First Learning Community Workshop, Washington, DC June 18-20, 2009 18th Interventional Cardiology Symposium, Montreal, Canada June 24-26, 2009 SOAR Southeast Training-of-Trainers, Atlanta, GA July 1-2, 2009 SOAR, 2nd Learning Community Workshop, Washington, DC July 8-10, 2009 SOAR East Coast Training-of-Trainers, Washington, DC  July 14-15, 2009 National Native American AIDS Summit, Rochester, NY July 28-31, 2009 SOAR West Coast Training-of-Trainers, San Francisco, CA  June 27, 2009 National HIV Testing Day August 23-26, 2009  2009 National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, GA August 23, 2009  2009 National HIV Prevention Conference - NGO Village, Atlanta, GA September 27, 2009  Gay Men's HIV Awareness Day  October 15, 2009 National Latino AIDS Awareness Day November 29-December 1, 2009 International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC), New Orleans, LA December 1, 2009 World AIDS Day July 13, 2011 HIV Vaccine Research and Design Program  UPCOMING DEADLINES May 6, 2009 Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS Grant Applications Due  May 11, 2009  CDC FOA: CDC-RFP-PS09-906 Applications Due May 15, 2009 National American Indian AIDS Summit 2009 Abstract Submissions Due May 15, 2009 2009 NHPC Late Breaker Abstracts Due June 1, 2009 NLM Community Information Outreach Projects 2009 Quotations Due June 15, 2009 MAC AIDS Fund Housing Community Grants Due July 10, 2009 2009 USCA Scholarship Applications Due July 17, 2009 2009 USCA Early Participant Registrations Due July 17, 2009 2009 USCA Early Exhibitor Registrations Due July 31, 2009 2009 NHPC NGO Village Applications Due September 25, 2009 2009 USCA Regular Participant Registration Deadline - Members and Non-Members October 1, 2009  Tommy Hilfiger Foundation Grants for Health and Youth Proposals Due