National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Local and National HIV/AIDS Organizations around the country are responding to the newly released and shockingly high numbers.

National Minority AIDS Council
NMAC supports the formation of a comprehensive national strategy to address HIV/AIDS in this country that includes input from all people vested in the fight against AIDS – from elected officials and health care workers, to vaccine researchers and people living with HIV/AIDS. Click here to read the press release.

W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Association (NMA) Health Institute

W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Association (NMA) Health Institute released a Research Agenda to Combat HIV/AIDS among African Americans in response to the HIV/AIDS state of emergency in African American communities. This document includes of recent articles that have been published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association, which examine HIV/AIDS within the African American community across varying circumstances. This collection of articles combines years of research and expertise in the field of HIV/AIDS, while at the same time bringing much needed focus and attention to this dilemma that is devastating the African American community.

National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS

The NBLCA has released two statements: CDC Report: The Resources Must Follow The Epidemic
A National Call to Action and NBLCA Calls for Emergency Congressional Hearing on CDC Report Detailing Dramatically Higher Rates of HIV/AIDS In Black Communities

National Black Women's HIV/AIDS Network

The National Black Women's HIV/AIDS Network (NBWHAN), comprised of women with HIV/AIDS, agency executives and leaders in research, program implementation and care and treatment said the 56,300 new infections reaffirms that African Americans are most impacted by HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Click here to read the press release.

National State and Territorial AIDS Directors

NASTAD issued a press release on August 2, 2008 in�reaction to the release of�the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) revised HIV incidence estimates. State and territorial AIDS directors demand that the United States (U.S.) government dramatically scale up efforts to end the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic. Click here to read the press release.