National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities
Building Leadership in Communities of Color to Address HIV/AIDS
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Aug/28 - 2009 Equal Access Initiative Computer Grants Program RFP Released
The 2009 Equal Access Initiative Computer Grants Program RFP is now available. This program provides computers and online database training to 100 faith- and community-based organizations nationwide. Applications are due February 7, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
Aug/26 - Ravinia Hayes-Cozier Interviewed by Voices of America
NMAC's Director of Government Relations and Public Policy was recently interviewedVOA English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua about why a comprehensive national AIDS strategy is needed.
Aug/25 - Puerto Rico and 8 States Lose HIV Surveillance Funding
Puerto Rico and eight states in the continental United States will no longer receive federal funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new HIV monitoring system, which found that that annual U.S. infection rate was 40 percent higher than previously estimated, The New York Times reports.
Aug/25 - AIDS Crisis in Communities of Color Prompts Demand for National AIDS Plan - Read Press Release and Position Paper
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.
Aug/19 - New Orleans HIV/AIDS Still Struggling Three Years after Hurricane Katrina
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?"
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