Puerto Rico
NMAC is dedicated to providing
culturally and linguistically competent capacity building assistance to faith-
and community-based organizations (F/CBOs) delivering much needed HIV/AIDS
prevention, treatment and care services in Puerto Rico.
Examples of NMAC’s recent
work in Puerto Rico include Conferencia Sobre HIV: En Alianza Para Un Mejor
Servicio, this past March 12-14, in San
Juan. The meeting brought F/CBOs, Puerto
Rico health officials and federal government agency representatives together for two days of
meetings. Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director of CDC's National Center
for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, gave the keynote address.
Working with the Puerto Rico HD, the Office of AIDS Research and the National
Library of Medicine, we distributed computer systems, complete with MS Office
Standard and Internet access, and provided extensive online database and
computer hardware training, to 75 CBOs on the Island, facilitating their
ability to create a communication network with each other, the Puerto Rico HD, federal
entities and other AIDS organizations worldwide.
