USCA: Master Series for Leadership Septembers 10 – 13, 2015 Washington, DC The 2015 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) will be in Washington, DC September 10-13. A new and innovative program for this year’s conference is its version of the TED Talks for the HIV Movement series. This program seeks to replicate, but has […]
Women’s Centered Leadership/Our Lives Matter Too In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day NMAC’s Leadership Pipeline embarks on an initiative that will establish women centered dialogues where female leaders can share, enlighten, and authenticate their strengths and contributions towards health equity and social justice. In the spirit of “high tea”, this virtual social […]
This year’s United States Conference on AIDS is a pivotal one. Here in our nation’s capital we’ll have all the key stakeholders in one city, under one roof, and minutes away from the White House. USCA happens at a time where convening on topics of HIV/AIDS have many implications in next year’s elections, policies, and health care […]
A report on the scholarship fund and prevention and education efforts of Capital City AIDS Fund from the U.S. Conference on AIDS in October 2014.
NMAC just completed an extensive strategic planning process that resulted in a new mission, vision and name. This is the most extensive change in the agency’s history. It’s a direct response to feedback gathered from key stakeholders, constituents, board members and staff. Some of their comments were very challenging. All were carefully considered. NMAC is […]
Internship Opportunity Announcement with NMAC and NIH National Institute of Health DUTIES/JOB DESCRIPTION: The interns will assist with project and meeting planning, co-facilitation, coordination of webinars, development of workshop curricula, collaboration with other NMAC departments and special projects to include USCA, research and literature reviews, proposal writing assistance, marketing and social media engagement. Project activities will correlate with […]
This is a post written by the National Minority AIDS Council’s Executive Director, Paul Kawata. HIV was the first disease to fight for it’s civil rights. Prior to that time, the prevailing thought was that diseases do not discriminate and that care was based on a medical model. HIV changed everything. Doctors were no longer […]
For decades, NMAC has worked within communities of color, targeting community-based organizations, to build healthier communities. Community-based organizations represent the backbone of the public health sector and play a vital role in eradicating HIV/AIDS. Today, community-based organizations (CBOs) are facing a rapidly changing health care landscape in which they must be able to adapt […]
I grew up, literally and figuratively, in the HIV/AIDS movement. The vast majority of people working to end the epidemic are good, honest, impartial Americans who have committed their lives to this fight. They are not racist, they are progressive people who are trying to change the world. That’s why it’s so perplexing, in a […]
New Guidelines for HIV Prevention with Persons with HIV This week CDC, HRSA, NIH, the American Academy of HIV Medicine, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, the National Minority AIDS Council, and the Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS) issued Recommendations for HIV Prevention with […]
