National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Building Leadership in Communities of Color to Address HIV/AIDS

April 14, 2009

April 14, 2009

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April 24th Deadline for 2009 USCA Abstracts Is Around the Corner

Have you submitted your 2009 USCA abstract yet? Keep in mind that the April 24th deadline is almost here! Abstracts that are chosen for presentation receive a range of benefits including complimentary conference registration and paid hotel nights (for seminars and workshops).  

Visit the 2009 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) to submit your abstract online, or to download a PDF of the abstract form.

Based on the feedback that we have received from constituents like you and our USCA partners, we want to make sure that we receive abstracts addressing the following topics: 

  • Organizational Sustainability
  • Survival tools and resources for operating an AIDS service organization and/or faith- and community-based organization during tough economic times / Working with limited resources
  • How to survive an agency merger: What are the best practices?
  • Advanced sessions addressing the issues of Executive Directors
  • HIV/AIDS over 50
  • Parallels of high HIV Incidence between different metropolitan areas e.g. DC, New Orleans, NYC, Puerto Rico
  • Translating skills, for example: Helping outreach workers receive skills on working in office environments, helping workers most comfortable in office environments learn how to do outreach
  • Consumer empowerment: Being active in your HIV/AIDS Care / Maintaining a partnership with your medical professional
  • Home-grown interventions that are not DEBI/EBIs
  • Recruiting new leaders into the HIV/AIDS movement
  • Lost to care and retention in care
  • CTR training for non-clinics
  • Sessions addressing African American heterosexual men
  • Sessions addressing transgenders
  • How to engage schools and youth in HIV prevention and education opportunities
  • Responding to the medicalization of the Ryan White CARE Act: Providing supportive services when it’s not considered a "core medical service?"
  • How does the RWCA fit into the Obama Administration’s health care reform goals
  • HIV Treatment and Access

If you have any questions, please visit USCA online at http://www.2009usca.org/ or contact us directly at (202) 483-NMAC (6622) or conferences@nmac.org.  

About NMAC
Since 1987, the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has advanced its mission, "to build leadership within communities of color to address challenges of HIV/AIDS," through a variety of programs and services. These include: a public policy education program, national and regional training conferences, a treatment and research program, printed and electronic resources, and a website: http://www.nmac.org/. NMAC also serves as an association of AIDS agencies, providing valuable information to faith- and community-based organizations, hospitals, clinics and other stakeholders. NMAC's advocacy activities are funded through private funders and donors only.

For more information, contact NMAC directly at (202) 483-NMAC (6622) or communications@nmac.org. You also may visit NMAC online at http://www.nmac.org/ or view its Wikipedia page at http://www.wikipedia.com/. Pictures and video clips from past NMAC events are available from MyPhotoAlbum.com (nmacpics.myphotoalbum.com/), and http://www.youtube.com/, respectively.  

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