NMAC
Lifeline - Tuesday, May 19, 2009
 Pfizer Inc.
recently
announced an innovative patient assistance program to help eligible unemployed
Americans and their families who have lost their health insurance maintain
access to their Pfizer medicines. Called MAINTAIN (Medicines Assistance for
Those who Are in Need), the program will allow qualifying patients and their
families to receive up to a year’s supply of Pfizer medicines for
free.
Eligibility requirements of the new program include:
- The
primary wage earner has become unemployed since January 1, 2009
- They have been
taking a Pfizer medicine for at least 3 months prior to the unemployment and
enrolling in the program
- They
have no prescription drug coverage
- They
can attest to financial hardship
For more
information about the program, call 1-866-706-2400 or visit http://www.pfizerhelpfulanswers.com/.
 Save-the-Date for the Next NMAC Stakeholder Call
As
announced last week, NMAC will hold its second Stakeholder Call on
Friday,
May 22 at
1:00
p.m. EST, with
guest speaker Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director of the National Center for
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) of the Director
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He will be discussing
the CDC's new HIV/AIDS awareness campaign, Act Against
AIDS. To
participate,
call
(605) 475-6333
and type
in access code: 481162. Due to the large number of participants expected, the
call will not be an open forum. You may submit your questions for Dr. Fenton in
advance, however, via communications@nmac.org until
Thursday, May 21, 5:00 p.m.
EST.
NMAC has announced new dates for its SOAR
training-of-trainers (TOT) series. These
three day training session certify professional trainers to deliver courses in
Strategic Planning, Human Resources, Fund Development and Proposal Writing,
Board Development, Financial Management or Budget Basics, and Coalition Building
to Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) providing HIV/AIDS prevention and
treatment services throughout the United States.
For more
information, please contact:
Myrtelina Gonzalez * (202) 483- 6622 ext. 310
* mgonzalez@nmac.org
Jaime
Gonzalez * (202) 483- 6622 ext. 322 * jgonzalez@nmac.org
 Important 2009
USCA
Deadlines!
This
year's USCA is set for October 29-31, at the Hilton San Francisco, in San Fracisco, CA. For more information, visit http://www.2009usca.org/. Dates to
keep in mind:
The ADAP Advocacy
Association, in partnership with the Community Access National Network
(CANN), will convene its “Early Treatment of HIV” on July 20th-21st in Washington,
DC. Registration for the Summit is only $199.00 per
attendee, and a limited number of scholarships will be awarded based on need.
The Summit is being held at The Westin City Center, located at 1400 M Street,
NW, Washington, DC 20005. Discounted room rates of $119.00 per room, per night,
plus tax is being offered to Summit attendees. Please make your hotel reservation
online or call The
Westin City Center toll-free at 888-627-9035 and refer to “ADAP Conference” to
make your hotel room reservations today!
For more information, please
email us at: info@adapadvocacyassociation.org.
 The National Library of Medicine Announces HIV/AIDS Community
Information Outreach Projects 2009 (NLM-09-078/SES)
The
National Library
of Medicine (NLM) is
pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from organizations and
libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS
related health information for patients, the affected community, and their
caregivers.
Click here for
more information. Quotations are
due to NLM on Monday, June 1. For
more information, contact Shari E. Shor, Contract Specialist at shorse@mail.nlm.nih.gov or
(301) 435-4388, or Robin D. Hope-Williams, Contracting Officer, at
atrhwilli@mail.nih.gov or
(301) 435-4379.
 The National Black
Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA) is celebrating their 2009 Choose Life
Awards Benefit Gala on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at The Lighthouse at
Chelsea Piers in New York City. For more information and to register, please
visit the NBLCA website.
 The 2009 National
HIV Prevention Conference,
set for August 23-26, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, in Atlanta, GA. The meeting also
invites organizations to display materials in the NGO
Village,
set for August
24,
from 6:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
To be considered, you must be registered for the conference and submit the "NGO
Table Reservation Form" by July
31,
along with proof of nonprofit status. Click here
for more information.
Information
about registration, abstracts and general exhibiting at NHPC is available
here.
The Kaiser Family
Foundation is seeking your help in identifying HIV-positive Latinos
in the US (in any number of major U.S. cities including L.A., New York, Chicago,
Dallas, Miami, among others) who could potentially appear in a PSA campaign on
HIV/AIDS currently in development. In 2008, Kaiser, in
partnership with Univision Networks, launched the first national
Spanish-language media campaign on HIV/AIDS, entitled “Soy…”, featuring the
personal stories of a diverse group of Latinos living with HIV and the people in
their lives. You can see the PSAs from this campaign on the Univision website
here: http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=1674626.
For the second year of this
campaign, we are looking to profile a new group of HIV-positive Latinos from
across the country. Candidates must have a native-level fluency in Spanish,
reside legally in the U.S., and be available for a short
interview within the next 2-3 weeks. For more information, please contact Erica
Frenkel at efrenkel@kff.org.
 Registration has opened for the Healthy Teen Network's 30th Annual
Conference, which will focus on the theme,
"Celebrating Healthy Teens and Young Families: 30 Years of Making a Difference,"
and is set for October 21-24, in
Tampa, FL.
 The Mississippi Department of Corrections, co-sponsored by The
Association on Programs for Female Offenders (APFO), will host the 13th National
Workshop on Adult & Juvenile Female Offenders on October 10-14,
2009
at the Marriott Jackson, Jackson, MI. The 2009 conference theme, “Harmony Beyond
Boundaries, Blending New Challenges with Emerging Ideas,” addresses the issues
related to adult and juvenile female offenders. The conference agenda will
spotlight information from around the country, and offer time to network and
learn from professionals recognized for their years of work related to female
offenders. To register, and for travel and lodging information, please visit http://ajfo.org/.
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