The take home message from the International AIDS Conference was clear: We Can End The AIDS Epidemic. Now it’s up to us to take that rhetoric and make it a reality. Register today for this year’s
We are particularly committed to bring People Living with HIV/AIDS(PLWHA) to this year’s Summit. PLWHAs who are executive directors, senior staff @ HDs/CHCs or federal government staff will get priority consideration. If you are a PLWHA who has one of these positions and need assistance to attend this year’s Summit, please contact pkawata@nmac.org. We will try our best to help get you to the meeting.
The mission for this year’s Summit is to give participants the tools to develop a strategic plan on how to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in their community. The Summit format will include free flowing dialogues between leaders as well as a structured review of tools to support the development of a strategic plan. The plans will focus on implementation of Treatment as Prevention (TasP) and other biomedical interventions to end HIV/AIDS. They will be examined within the context of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), High Impact Prevention (HIP), reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act (RWCA), and Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA). Federal government staff will attend the Summit to share their perspective and join the dialogue on how their programs will support and enhance our ability to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America.
The Summit will begin with the signing of a Declaration to End the HIV/AIDS in America. This declaration will focus on four points:
1. Promote PLWHA leadership in efforts to increase health care engagement and treatment
2. Eliminate new HIV infections,
3. Reduce stigma, discrimination, and social injustices that increase HIV vulnerability and health disparities
4. Maintain strong commitment to finding a vaccine and a cure
Many of the Blue Ribbon Panel members will attend the Summit. We are particularly grateful that Dr. Julio Montaner will join us again to share his perspective and vision.
We want to thank Gilead Sciences for supporting this year’s Summit to End AIDS in America and the United States Conference on AIDS.
Blue Ribbon Panel
Declaration To END AIDS In America
Chair
Julio Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Members
Bertrand Audoin
International AIDS Society
Jeff Bachar
Western North Carolina AIDS Project
Nancy Bernstein
National AIDS Housing Coalition
Don Blanchon
Whiteman Walker Health
Scott Campbell
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Robert Carroll
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Kevin Cathcart
Lambda Legal
Guillermo Chacon
Latino Commission on AIDS
Tommy Chesbro
HIV+ Activist
Cyndee Clay
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive
Chris Collins
amfAR
Masen Davis
Transgender Law Center
Oscar De La O
Bienestar
John Duran
HIV+ Elected Official
West Hollywood City Council
Jamal Edwards
Howard Brown Health Center
Bill Farrand
Test Positive Aware Network
C. Virginia Fields
National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
Ingrid Floyd
Iris House
Robert Greenwald
Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Harvard Law School
Neil Giuliano
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Kathie Heirs
AIDS Alabama
Marjorie Hill
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Regan Hoffman
HIV+ Activist
POZ Magazine
Jody Huckaby
PFLAG National (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Rebecca Issacs
Equality Federation
Lorri Jean
LA Gay & Lesbian Center
Loretta Jennings
Outreach Inc.
Mark Johnson
Brotherhood, Inc.
Monica Johnson
HIV+ Executive Director
HEROES
Ronald Johnson
HIV+ Activist
AIDS United
Wilbur Jordan, MD
Los Angeles, CA
Michael Kaplan
HIV+ Executive Director
Cascade AIDS Project
Paul Kawata
National Minority AIDS Council
Mara Keisling
National Center for Transgender Equality
Reverend Joyce Turner Keller
Aspirations
Kate Kendell
National Center For Lesbian Rights
Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks
National Black Justice Coalition
Jeff Levi
Trust for America’s Health
Paul Loberti
Rhode Island HIV Provision of Care
Marsha Martin
Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services
Terry McGovern
Ford Foundation
Hernan Molina
West Hollywood City Council
David Munar
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Kathy O’Brien
Hyacinth AIDS Foundation
Gregory Pappas, MD, PhD
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration
DC Department of Health
Mario Perez
Los Angeles Office of AIDS Programs and Policy
Alvan Quamina
AIDS Project of the East Bay
Patrick Reynolds
The House That Wisdom Built
Valerie Rochester
Black Women’s Health Imperative
Therese Rodriguez
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Michael Ruppal
The AIDS Institute
Randy Russell
Lifelong AIDS Alliance
Bamby Salcedo
HIV+ Trans Activist
Los Angele Children’s Hospital
Eric Sawyer
HIV+ Activist
UNAIDS
Julie Scofield
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
Pernessa Seele
The Balm in Gilead
Ron Simmons
Us Helping Us
William Smith
National Coalition of STD Directors
Terry Stone
CenterLink
Monica Sweeney
New York City Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control
Adam Tenner
Metro Teen AIDS
Dan Tietz
AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Lance Toma
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Carole Treston
AIDS Alliance for Children Youth and Families
Calvin Twoguns
Liberty Research Group
Evelyn Ullah
Broward County Health Department
Modesto Tico Valle
Center on Halsted
Dana Van Gorder
Project Inform
Steven Wakefield
HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Andrea Weddle
HIV Medicine Association
Phill Wilson
HIV+ Executive Director
The Black AIDS Institute
A. Toni Young
Community Health Education Group
Jose Zuniga
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and marking NMAC’s 25th Anniversary!