Minority Issues

"A Call to Action for Leaders: The HIV/AIDS Crisis among African Americans"
● Available online beginning September 2009 ●

CDC announces the availability of a seven-part web series highlighting the efforts of African American leaders to address the impact of HIV/AIDS in their communities. All leaders where African Americans live, work, play, learn and worship are strongly encouraged to view this series to help increase awareness and sustainable, collaborative action to stop this crisis. Each part in this series is pre-recorded and approximately ten minutes in length.

Objectives of this Series Describe the HIV/AIDS crisis among African Americans. Discuss innovative strategies by leaders. Identify opportunities for leaders to initiate and conduct activities for HIV/AIDS prevention. Discuss CDC's role and activities.

Viewing
This Web series may be viewed online beginning September 2009 at http://www2a.cdc.gov/phtn  on computers with Internet and Windows Media Player.

Black Gay Men Podcast Series

NASTAD's 2009 podcast series, “Connecting the Dots”, explores the complexities that shape our understanding of the HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and viral hepatitis epidemics in the U.S. The first two installments explore racism, homophobia, gender roles, popular culture and media in the lives of black gay men and offer listeners an opportunity to develop new insights and ideas, renew their commitment to asking difficult questions and seek real solutions to the challenges impacting the lives of black gay men. Parts one and two can be found at www.nastad.org  (please note: the podcasts are large files so please be patient as they download). The final two installments will be released in March.

(See also Minority News.)

Grants, Scholarships and Fellowships Available

See also Funding Resources

Online Grant-writing Tutorial

Offered by The National Minority AIDS Council 

A grant-writing tutorial, geared primarily toward beginner proposal writers, is now available on the National Minority AIDS Council web site. The tutorial, which was developed as part of NMAC's cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau contains information for responding to requests for grant proposals for HIV-related services. It includes information on prevention, early intervention, primary care and related support services such as case management, substance-abuse treatment and counseling, and mental health services. http://www.nmac.org/tech_assistance/Grant_Modules/grant_welcome.asp

See Also Funding Information

Resources

NMAC

The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has advanced its mission, “to develop leadership within communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS” since 1987 through individualized capacity building assistance, technical assistance trainings, public policy education programs; national and regional conferences; treatment and research education programs; online and printed resource materials; and a website: http://www.nmac.org. The agency also serves as a membership association for its constituents AIDS service organizations and minority faith- and community-based organizations delivering HIV/AIDS services in communities of color and advocates on their behalf in Washington, DC.

NMAC's advocacy efforts are funded through private funders and donors only. For more information, please contact NMAC directly at (202) 483-NMAC (6622) or communications@nmac.org . You may find us online at http://www.nmac,org/, as well as on Facebook.com, Wikipedia.com, Twitter.com, MyPhotoAlbum.com and YouTube.com.
 

MDCH Surveillance Report HIV/AIDS Rates by Race/Ethnicity in the 25 Highest HIV Prevalence Counties in Michigan: Focus on Hispanics

AFRICAN-AMERICANS & HIV

See the PowerPoint Presentation, "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the African American Community," presented at the A4C Meeting February 25, 2009 by Ligia V. Buia, MPH, HIV/AIDS Epidemiologist, Michigan Dept. of Community Health.
 

MDCH's HIV in Metro Detroit:Teens and Young Adults

CDC’s A Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans

NASTAD Issue Brief Focusing on Black Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)

• "Black Americans and HIV/AIDS" -- provides information on the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on Blacks. It is available at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/6089.cfm.
• "Latinos and HIV/AIDS" -- focuses on the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in the country. It is available at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/6007.cfm.
• "Women and HIV/AIDS in the United States" -- highlights the challenges for women living with and at risk for HIV. It is available at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/6092.cfm.

The Body Presents: An African-American's Guide to Living With HIV
Within the African-American community, there's still an enormous amount of fear, ignorance and prejudice about HIV and HIV-positive people. If you're black and you've just been diagnosed with HIV, this stigma may cause you to feel guilty, depressed or angry in ways that can be hazardous to your health. That's why it's vital to know the facts. The Body's newest informational booklet, "HIV & Me: An African-American's Guide to Living With HIV," can provide you with basic guidance, key details and inspiring stories that can help you live a full -- and fulfilling -- life with HIV. Do you work for an HIV service organization or health care provider? Free print copies of "HIV & Me" are available to professionals ordering from within the United States! Click here to download an order form.
 

New Spanish Content Now Available on AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo At-a-Glance Volume Issue No. 8
AIDSinfo has created a new Health Topics section in Spanish. This section includes up-to-date and reliable Spanish-language resources from the Federal government in one location on the AIDSinfo Web site. The new section provides links in Spanish on a variety of topics: HIV Treatment HIV Prevention Vaccines Opportunistic Infections
Cultural Competency

In addition to the new Health Topics section, AIDSinfo has also released a new Publications Ordering page in Spanish to allow Spanish-speaking users to order publications about HIV treatment. This new page allows Spanish-speaking users to preview publications in Spanish and order either English or Spanish versions of them by postal mail or e-mail.

Updated HIV Fact Sheets on Black Americans, Latinos, and Women
The Kaiser Family Foundation is releasing updated fact sheets on Black Americans, Latinos, and Women and HIV/AIDS.  http://www.kff.org/hivaids/index.cfm .
 

Racial Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Michigan & US - HIV Surveillance Presentation from Black AIDS Awareness Rally, January 10, 2006, by Melissa Reznar, MPH, MDCH HIV/AIDS Data Manager/Epidemiologist
(Note: This is a PowerPoint Presentation. After you click on the link above and open the file you can right mouse click on the first slide, then choose "edit slides" to see Melissa's notes for each slide.)

 Video “Seniors At Risk: Sex, Drugs and HIV”
With funding from the Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, Urban Solutions Inc. and Silhouette Media produced a video to educate African American adults about the risk factors of contracting the HIV virus. It is targeted at people 50 years of age and older who are unaware of how the disease spreads or who may believe that age provides them immunity. In the program, you will hear from experts in the field, and see candid re-enactments that will raise awareness of what constitutes at-risk behavior.

Copies of “Seniors At Risk: Sex, Drugs and HIV” cost $25.00 (fully tax –deductible). You may order from: Urban Solutions, Inc.
3430 E. Jefferson #124, Detroit, MI 48207, or Place an order on our web site:
http://www.urbansolutionsinc.org Be sure to indicate whether you’d like to receive the program on DVD or VHS. This video has been reviewed by the Michigan Program Review Panel and is recommended for the intended audience.

Faith-Based HIV Prevention Interventions
A Technical Assistance Guide for Working with
Communities of Faith, created by MDCH