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White House AIDS Office Announces Upcoming National HIV/AIDS Community Discussions

The White House Office of National AIDS Policy recently announced dates and locations for a series of National HIV/AIDS Community Discussions. These strategy sessions are an opportunity for diverse communities impacted by HIV/AIDS in different regions of the country to give White House officials and other policy-makers their comments and recommendations regarding the president’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

The National HIV/AIDS Strategy includes 3 major overarching goals:

Reducing HIV incidence
Increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes
Reducing HIV-related health disparities
 

For more details about the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, see http://www.whitehouse.gov.

A White House press release describing the goals of the community meetings is available at The first community discussion took place in Atlanta on September 25 at the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference. Locations and dates of upcoming meeting are as follows:


October 9: Albuquerque, NM
October 10: Houston, TX
October 16: San Francisco, CA
October 17: Oakland, CA
October 18: Los Angeles, CA
October 26: Columbia, SC
November 6: San Juan, Puerto Rico
November 9: U.S. Virgin Islands
November 16: Jackson, MS
November 20: Fort Lauderdale, FL
December 4: New York, NY

Discussions will be held in the evenings to allow for the widest possible participation. Because many people are expected to want to speak, individual testimony will be time-limited.

The San Francisco discussion will take place Friday, October 16, from 6:00-8:00 pm at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, 1675 Owens Street.

Interested participants can RSVP for their local discussion online.

For more information about the administration's HIV/AIDS efforts, visit the White House Office of National AIDS Policy web site.

10/06/09

Sources

White House Office of the Press Secretary. President Obama Announces National HIV/AIDS Community Discussions. Press release. August 21, 2009.

White House Office of National AIDS Policy. Upcoming National HIV/AIDS Community Discussions Locations and Dates Announced. Public announcement. September 21, 2009.