Community-Based Reponse
Local and National HIV/AIDS Organizations around the country are responding to the newly released and shockingly high numbers.
National Minority AIDS Council
NMAC supports the formation of a comprehensive national strategy to address HIV/AIDS in this country that includes input from all people vested in the fight against AIDS – from elected officials and health care workers, to vaccine researchers and people living with HIV/AIDS. Click here to read the press release.
W. Montague
Cobb/National Medical Association (NMA) Health Institute
W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Association (NMA) Health
Institute released a Research Agenda to Combat HIV/AIDS among African Americans
in response to the HIV/AIDS state of emergency in African American communities. This
document includes of recent articles that have been published in the January
2008 issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association, which examine
HIV/AIDS within the African American community across varying circumstances. This
collection of articles combines years of research and expertise in the field of
HIV/AIDS, while at the same time bringing much needed focus and attention to
this dilemma that is devastating the African American community.
National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
National Black Women's
HIV/AIDS Network
The National Black Women's HIV/AIDS Network (NBWHAN), comprised of women with
HIV/AIDS, agency executives and leaders in research, program implementation and
care and treatment said the 56,300 new infections reaffirms that African
Americans are most impacted by HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Click here to read the press release.
National State and Territorial AIDS Directors
NASTAD issued a press
release on August 2, 2008 in reaction to the release of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) revised HIV
incidence estimates. State and territorial AIDS directors demand that the United States (U.S.) government dramatically scale up efforts to end the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic. Click here to read the press release.
