CHAMP mobilizes people living with HIV, community activists, policy advocates, academics and researchers in our country, and links them with allies around the world.

CHAMP arms a new generation of leaders with tools and resources to challenge and change HIV/AIDS prevention policies; to attack the root causes of the epidemic such as poverty, homophobia and racism; and to sustain and expand our movements for justice. We unite across communities facing high rates of HIV, through community organizing, strategy development, media efforts, and training in popular education, history, critical thinking, and data analysis.

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We are delighted to introduce the new Co-Director team at CHAMP: Julie Davids and Pat Nixon.

At the end of last year, the CHAMP Board and staff underwent a strategic planning process that resulted in re-committing ourselves to CHAMP's mission: To bridge HIV/AIDS, human rights, and struggles for social, racial and economic justice -- which we call HIV Prevention Justice. This requires political and community mobilization that is best served by CHAMP functioning as a vibrant and agile network that can respond to the demands of its members who are activists on the front lines of the prevention justice movement.

The capacity of the CHAMP network will be significantly enhanced by the addition of Pat Nixon to our team. Pat comes to CHAMP with a lifelong history of social justice and political organizing work as well as a wealth of experience overseeing the operations of social justice organizations. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of Global Justice (the parent organization of the Student Global AIDS Campaign) and prior to that she was the Managing Director of the TransAfrica Forum.  Her experience as Membership Manager at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and organizer for the National Organizer's Alliance and UNITE-HERE will boost CHAMP's ability to organize  and inspire our network.

Julie Davids founded CHAMP based on her analysis of the history and future of HIV/AIDS as a social struggle tied to economic, racial and human rights. Through her work at CHAMP she has since become recognized not only as one of the country's leading AIDS activists, but as a leader in the movement for more progressive federal AIDS and prevention research policies. Recently returned from parental leave, Julie is eager to join forces with Pat to help build CHAMP into a network with the capacity and vision to transform the domestic AIDS movement into one that addresses the human rights issues that fuel the US's epidemic: discrimination against LGBT people, racism, structural poverty, unjust mass incarceration policies and the enduring oppression of women.

Please join us in welcoming Pat and Julie to their new roles of the Co-Directors of the CHAMP network.  

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In the fall of 2009, our Board, staff and stakeholders came together to build a CHAMP strategic plan for 2010. As a result, we are changing our structure to better meet our goals and have a sustainable structure as an organization fighting for HIV Prevention Justice. We presented on CHAMP's programs, achievements and goals for the coming year, including:

• Building the HIV Prevention Justice Movement
• Furthering AIDS Activism in the New Political Context
• Ensuring a Sustainable Network Focused on HIV in the United States