National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Plenary Luncheon: The Tenth Anniversary of the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI)

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Hall A, First Floor

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This panel will address the history and legacy of the MAI, which has ensured that tens of thousands of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS receive the services they need. Those who made the MAI a reality will speak, including Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Donna Christian-Christensen (pictures left to right), as well as Miguelina Leon, Dr. Beny Primm, and Ernest Hopkins. Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, the National Minority AIDS Council’s Government Relations and Public Policy Division and one of the co-author’s of this historic initiative, will serve as moderator.

Also at this event, USCA Sponsor, the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), will premier its newest public service announcement featuring NMAC board member and jazz singer, Nancy Wilson. Speaking Hands, the youth gospel choir, of Plantation, Florida, will perform.

Seminars: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

• Alcanzar Para Mujeres (APM) (English: Reach for Women)

• A longitudinal study of the Mpowerment Project's implementation at 48 CBOs: What predicts implementation success and how can implementation be enhanced?

• Develop Your "Leader-as-Coach" Skill-set

• Moving from Policy to Action: Examining the Evidence on the Impact of Housing on HIV Prevention and Care - The use of research to influence housing policy for people with HIV/AIDS and other chronic disabilities

• Transgender Population: GIRL TALK

• Ask, Screen, Intervene: Incorporating HIV Prevention Into the Lives of People Living With HIV

• Unsafe at any Speed: Methamphetamines, Sexual Risk, and HIV

• Host Committee Seminar: The State of HIV/AIDS in Florida

• Forgotten Population in HIV Prevention beyond the DL: Black/African American men who have sex with women

• Pre-Risk Approaches to Primary HIV Prevention in African American Youth

• "Raising Healthy Kids"-A successful intervention to reduce risk, increase knowledge and strengthen family communication about HIV/AIDS

• Ain't Understanding Mellow 2: An HIV Dialogue for Action in African American Communities

• The 2008 Presidential Election and HIV/AIDS Issues - Including a National AIDS Strategy

• What do the Current and New DEBIs cost to Implement?

• Bridging the Gap between HIV/AIDS and the Faith Community

• Expanding Capacity for CLIA-Waived HIV Rapid Test Screening in Non-clinical Settings

• Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization 2009 – Maintaining a Stable HIV Care System in an Era of Change

Platinum Seminar Series:  9:00 a.m. - 12 noon

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• Breakfast Seminar: New Targets in HAART - What Educators Need to Know (supported by Pfizer Inc)

• Breakfast Seminar: Living Longer with HIV (supported by GlaxoSmithKline)

• Breakfast Seminar: Special Issues in HIV Care: 2008 Update (supported by Merck)

• Breakfast Seminar: Taking on HIV in the US (supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb)

• Breakfast Seminar: 2009 - Educating HIV Positive Patients (supported by Gilead Sciences)

Session 1: 2:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

 

Workshops

• Using a multi-leveled approach to effectively integrating HIV prevention, care and treatment programs (An HIV Health Literacy Model)

• Prescription Hope: A Brief History of HIV Treatment Strategies

• Challenges, Controversies, and Successes in HIV Prevention and Care for Incarcerated Persons

• Positive Prevention Issues - PREP Clinical Trials, Family Planning Issues - Mothers to Mothers Campaign in SA

• Come Bien, Vive Bien (Eat Well, Live Well) with HIV/AIDS along the US/Mexico Border: A Nutrition Promotora Training Program

• Improving the Management of HIV/AIDS

• Cause-Marketing Prevention Strategies: Using Media to Impact Outreach Efforts

• Can you read me now? How to collaborate to create culturally appropriate and linguistically responsive HIV/AIDS messages.

• HIV-RAAP: Preventing the Spread of HIV among Heterosexual African American Men and Women through a Gender and Culture Sensitive Coeducational Intervention

• Grant Writing: Beyond the Basics

• The Phoenix Rises: Building and Operating a Brand New, Service Rich, HIV/AIDS Dedicated 32 Unit Building by an HIV/AIDS Organization with Modest Resources

• Effective Strategies for Reaching HIV Positive YMSM of Color: Lessons Learned

• HIV, Substance Abuse and Mental Health

• Principles, Policies and Practices for Agency Wellness: The Wellness Community at Hyacinth

• Latinos, Faith and HIV

• Integrating STD and HIV Partner Services

• Ground Breaking Strategies in Community Planning: A 360 Degree Approach. How did Kentucky do it?

• Women of Color with HIV: Building Culturally Competent Sustainable Models of Care

• The Future of Healthcare

• HIV Research 101: An NIH Community Update

• The Future of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the United States

 Roundtables

 

• Project HIP: Mental Health HIV Services Collaborative Client Advisory Board

• HIV Testing and Outreach in Homeless Shelters

• Strategic Planning! Make it work for you!

• From Silos to Synergy...Learn about a syndemic-oriented approach that engages at-potential youth to prevent HIV, Teen Pregnancy, Substance Abuse and Violence

• Using New Technologies for Capacity Building: Using Web Seminars to Enhance Learning and Skills Building Process, Increase Access and Expand Coverage

• Latino MSM in New York: Alcohol and Substance Use and Its Relationship with Risky Sexual Behaviors

• Viewing HIV/AIDS as a Migratory Epidemic: A Growing Multi-National Health Crisis

 

Session 2: 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

 

Workshops

• Lessons Learned from over 20 years of HIV/AIDS Commemorations within Communities of Color

• Mentoring the Next Generation of AIDS Leadership

• Continuous Quality Improvement as an Evaluation and Policy Tool for Community Based Organizations serving HIV+ Adults

• HIV Vaccine Research Education Initiative

• POL for Latinos: The Process of Creating a Culturally Appropriate Adaptation

• Money Management as a Core Stabilization Tool for the Chronically Ill and Marginally Housed

• Findings and Program Policy Implications from the Evaluation of the OWH HIV Prevention Programs for Women

• The Trans-health Information Project (TIP): How we developed and ran a successful, harm-reduction-focused, locally-grown, theory-based, peer-driven transgender HIV prevention project since 2003

• HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Services in Prisons of Developing Countries

• Minnesota ADAP Medication Adherence Initiative - Year One

• Confronting the Intersection: Women of Color Globally Unite to End Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS

• The Men's Health Curriculum -  a Home Grown Evidence Based Intervention

• Avoid Being Borat: Cultural Diversity Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Non-Profits of the United States

• Undermining Public Health and Human Rights: The United States Immigration and Travel Ban

• Strategic Planning for the Chronic Care Model: Preparing Your Agency and Your Community for Implementing the Chronic Care Model

• Putting the P-R-E-V-E-N-T in PREVENTion

• Creating Programs to Address Multiple Client Challenges: A Blended Approach

• Assessment of Routine HIV Testing in Health-care Care Settings: Challenges, Strategies, and Successes

• Advocating for Your Community: Making Your Voice Heard Loud and Clear

• CDC Incidence Session

  
  

Roundtables

 

• The evaluation of HIV Prevention capacity building assistance efforts: a guided discussion

• Using a Horizontal Partnership Model to Address Capacity Building Issues in the Implementation of DEBIs: the Case of Community PROMISE

• Seronegative Black MSM: The Protective Factors of the 54%

• Integrated Service Delivery: The evolution and evalutation of a mobile HIV/CTR Program

• Advocacy and Networking by Service Providers, Affected Communities and PLWHAs to address Social and Economic Determinants of Vulnerability in the Latino Community

• Using Youth Leaders to Strengthen Your Programs

• The Role of the Black Church in combating HIV/AIDS in the African American community

• Sharing Best Practices: A Roundtable for Volunteer Managers

7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Special Event: Reflections: Looking Back, Moving Forward Community Assembly

Location: Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel

This event will feature a number of influential leaders in the HIV/AIDS movement. Actress Gloria Reuben, best known for her role as a health care professional living with HIV/AIDS on the program "ER," will serve as the evening’s emcee.  The step troupe of the Delta Eta Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority also will perform.