Register Now: “HIV Testing for an AIDS-Free Generation” Webinar/Call
To support the 2012 observance of National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), AIDS.gov (on behalf of HHS) will host a webinar/conference call “HIV Testing for an AIDS-Free Generation” on Tuesday June 26, 2012 from 2-3 p.m. (EDT).
Register for this event, which is open to the public, by June 22. Federal staff, grantees and stakeholders working with domestic HIV/AIDS programs are encouraged to participate.
Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, and Director, HHS Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy) will moderate. Several of the U.S. government’s leading voices on HIV/AIDS will provide updates on the state of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Speakers include:
Want to find an HIV testing site and other services near you? Use the HIV/AIDS Prevention & Service Provider Locator.
STRILITE Cotinues to Grow Forward
The emerging entity STRILITE, the newly
founded organization formed under the auspices of the D-Up HIV/ AIDS prevention
program being facilitated by The Living and Affected
Corporation has been formally reconized as a registered non profit
by the Secretary of States office. According to information released from the
group, the effort was pursued to complete the structure process of the
organization including a new office contact number. Since being notified, the
group was able to submit proposals to the Arkansas Department of Health in
response to their HIV Awareness Day Request for Proposals. The proposal is based
around their impending HELP Fair scheduled for September 28, 2012. Pictured from
left: Will T., Kevin H., ADH Program Manager Ms. Courtney Hampton, J. Griggs, D.
Lopp.
Under the prevention grant awarded to The Living and Affected Corporation, the group Strilite was designed to continue to address ongoing issues and barriers of HIV and AIDS, especially in the people of color communities that have been disportionately impacted by the disease. Within the scope of that award the prevention programming attached was centered on a diffusion of evidenced based platform entitled the D-Up program better known as "Defend Yourself." The basis of the community based intervention called for a group of black gay men to serve as conduits within the same gender loving community to discover "Opinion Leaders" who will facilitate communicating prevention messages to their inner and extended networks. As the program has developed, the core group has agreed that the branding and group philosophy will be central in their appeal and ability offer positive images that they have idenitifed as "missing in action" among Black gay men. During the course of their training, the men of Strilite have also received additonal training resulted in being certified HIV testers as well as introduction to the elements of the peer to peer certification program.
The name is rooted in the foundation that each participant had a shared vision of "striving for enlightenment." "We have to deal with our present as it begins to impact our future," said J. Griggs about the group. "It's really important that we be apart of decision processes and the policy making that will affect our lives." he concluded. Although the genesis of the organization evolved from the D-Up curriculum, group participants felt it imperative that they forge a self identified group that would resonate among its peers. Esepcially since such a viable group didn't exist in the city. Also the group wanted to play a significant role in becoming involved with raising consciousness concerning the messages and services being crafted to serve Black gay men living and or affected by HIV and AIDS. A aggresive and developing schedule of events including launching a in-house support group model, plus participating in HIV Awareness programs and utilizing social media outlets as a medium to share their organizational information and future programming. The organization can be contacted via the LA Corp's office phone 379-8203, at strilite@gmail.com or Strilite Incorporated, P.O. Box 242281 Little Rock, Arkansas, 72227 The group will be based at 401 North Maple, Suite A, North Little Rock, Arkansas 72214
Register for this event, which is open to the public, by June 22. Federal staff, grantees and stakeholders working with domestic HIV/AIDS programs are encouraged to participate.
Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, and Director, HHS Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy) will moderate. Several of the U.S. government’s leading voices on HIV/AIDS will provide updates on the state of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Speakers include:
• Dr. Grant Colfax (Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy) (invited)
• Dr. Jonathan Mermin (Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC)
• Mr. Richard Klein (Office of Special Health Issues, FDA)
• Dr. Deborah Parham Hopson (Associate Administrator, HIV/AIDS Bureau, HRSA)
• Mr. David Vos (Director, Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, HUD)
• Dr. Caroline Ryan (Director of Technical Leadership, OGAC)
• Dr. Linda Youngman (ONDCP Liaison, SAMHSA)
• Dr. Maggie Czarnogorski (Deputy Director, Clinical Public Health Programs, Office of Public Health, VA)
This is the third year that AIDS.gov has organized a webinar to support the messages of National HIV Testing Day. As in the past, participants will be encouraged to submit questions using the hashtag #NHTDwebinar on Twitter. There will also be an opportunity for live questions during the event.Want to find an HIV testing site and other services near you? Use the HIV/AIDS Prevention & Service Provider Locator.
STRILITE Cotinues to Grow Forward
Under the prevention grant awarded to The Living and Affected Corporation, the group Strilite was designed to continue to address ongoing issues and barriers of HIV and AIDS, especially in the people of color communities that have been disportionately impacted by the disease. Within the scope of that award the prevention programming attached was centered on a diffusion of evidenced based platform entitled the D-Up program better known as "Defend Yourself." The basis of the community based intervention called for a group of black gay men to serve as conduits within the same gender loving community to discover "Opinion Leaders" who will facilitate communicating prevention messages to their inner and extended networks. As the program has developed, the core group has agreed that the branding and group philosophy will be central in their appeal and ability offer positive images that they have idenitifed as "missing in action" among Black gay men. During the course of their training, the men of Strilite have also received additonal training resulted in being certified HIV testers as well as introduction to the elements of the peer to peer certification program.
The name is rooted in the foundation that each participant had a shared vision of "striving for enlightenment." "We have to deal with our present as it begins to impact our future," said J. Griggs about the group. "It's really important that we be apart of decision processes and the policy making that will affect our lives." he concluded. Although the genesis of the organization evolved from the D-Up curriculum, group participants felt it imperative that they forge a self identified group that would resonate among its peers. Esepcially since such a viable group didn't exist in the city. Also the group wanted to play a significant role in becoming involved with raising consciousness concerning the messages and services being crafted to serve Black gay men living and or affected by HIV and AIDS. A aggresive and developing schedule of events including launching a in-house support group model, plus participating in HIV Awareness programs and utilizing social media outlets as a medium to share their organizational information and future programming. The organization can be contacted via the LA Corp's office phone 379-8203, at strilite@gmail.com or Strilite Incorporated, P.O. Box 242281 Little Rock, Arkansas, 72227 The group will be based at 401 North Maple, Suite A, North Little Rock, Arkansas 72214
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