Southerners Prepare for NHAS Community Discussion
A Brave New Day of Jackson, MS organized a daylong AIDS advocacy training session for more than a 100 participants from five Southern states who gathered in advance of the White House community discussion on a National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Hear Robin Webb of A Brave New Day talk about the planning session.
White House Taking Comments on NHAS through Monday, November 23rd
The Office of National AIDS Policy website now shows that comments will be taken on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy through Monday, November 23rd.
Please take this opportunity to weigh in on one of the most important domestic policy discussions to take place in recent years.
For Our Communities – We Are Present: The Latino Community and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
The Latino Commission on AIDS invites anyone involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS to participate in an English and Spanish language National Conference Call to ensure Latino voices are included in the development of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy led by the Office of National AIDS Policy of the White House.
Friday, November 13, 2009
3:30 P.M. EST | 4:30 P.M. in Puerto Rico
CALL-IN NUMBER: 1-888-387-8686
PARTICIPANT CODE: 1883577#
White House will facilitate community access to panel drafting National HIV/AIDS Strategy
The interagency federal panel that will draft the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the U.S. will meet with community representatives, said Greg Millett of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) at a recent meeting sponsored by the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy.
The announcement is welcome news, as Jeff Crowley, ONAP director, has made clear that the interagency panel writing the nation’s first comprehensive HIV/AIDS plan would be comprised solely of officials from relevant federal agencies and departments. The Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy, which has advocated for a National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) since 2007, wrote Mr. Crowley earlier this year to urge the White House to create meaningful roles for community representatives to shape the plan. A coalition of women’s HIV/AIDS advocates also urged Crowley to make direct community involvement in shaping the plan a priority. While short of the request to include community members among the plan's drafters, news that the panel will meeting with community representatives is a new and positive development.
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National AIDS Strategy call to action issued at National Equality March
Ronald Johnson, Deputy Executive Director of AIDS Action Council, delivered a rousing speech at the HIV/AIDS Rally & Vigil at the National Equality March (held over the weekend of October 10-11, 2009). The march marked the first time in nearly ten years that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Americans and their allies converged on our nation's capital from around the country to advocate for their rights.
Amidst calls for pro-equality measures long left sitting on Congress's shelves, Johnson's speech highlighted a recent success of HIV/AIDS activists, including many LGBT activists: President Obama's commitment to creating a National AIDS Strategy through the Office of National AIDS Policy.
The call to action now, Johnson said, is ensuring that the process for creating the strategy meets to goals of the framework hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals contributed to creating through the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy.
Click below to read his speech in full.
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