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Unlocking HIV Prevention: Using Research as an Advocacy Tool to Confront HIV and Imprisonment
CHAMP's Project UNSHACKLE is sponsoring a FREE daylong institute about the intersection between HIV and imprisonment — 9:30am to 5pm on Thursday, September 25th, in Oakland, California. This institute will equip HIV and social justice activists with the tools, skills and information to understand and utilize research findings at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and imprisonment to ensure that research addresses community concerns and experiences.
Click here for more information and to register for the institute.

Solidarity Project: Housing As HIV Prevention / Alojamiento como una forma de prevención del VIH
As many as 60% of all HIV positive people have experienced homelessness or unstable housing (such as staying on a friend's couch, where a person could be kicked out at any time) in their lifetimes, according to research by Angela Aidala, Ph.D. of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. But often, even when organizations or governments provide housing as a part of HIV services, the issue is talked about in a way that blames individuals for "risky behavior" and assumes that if someone is dealing with both housing problems and HIV, these two challenges are a result of being a "risky person."
Click here to read Solidarity Project (En Español).

Chaotic & Underfunded: CDC's HIV "Heightened National Response" For African Americans

Launched with much fanfare in March 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) A Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African-Americans called for "expanding the reach of prevention services; increasing opportunities for diagnosing and treating HIV; developing new, effective prevention interventions, and; mobilizing broader community action."

One year later, the Heightened National Response (HNR) effort has been marked by shifting leadership, lack of communication with local leaders and community organizations, and no new funding for any initiatives besides those restricted to HIV testing. It is now widely believed that Madeline Sutton, MD, MPH, CDC Acting Director of Partnerships in the Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention, the latest in a series of individuals responsible for HNR, will once again restructure the initiative in an attempt to address its significant shortfalls.

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The Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) is establishing, training and mobilizing an independent and powerful HIV/AIDS movement in the United States -- bridging HIV/AIDS, human rights, and struggles for social and economic justice -- and ensuring the development of a broad and effective range of HIV prevention options in the next decade.

CHAMP Academy: Trainings for Winnable Campaigns

CHAMP trainings are sharp, engaging and inspiring. We offer in-house training for AIDS and social/economic justice organizations; custom workshops for conferences and strategic meetings; and the Prevention Justice Partnership, an intensive year-long community organizing training for groups around the country. --more--

Strategy Lab for HIV Prevention Policy

CHAMP's Strategy Lab brings together key thinkers and troublemakers for HIV prevention policy and research advocacy, linking information and analysis to effective strategies for change. CHAMP initiates and assists national organizing campaigns to defend and expand HIV prevention efforts. > --more--

CHAMP Power Grid: Fighting AIDS through Movement Building

We are arming a new generation of leaders with tools and resources to change unjust and inaccurate HIV/AIDS prevention policies, and link them with allies around the world to attack the root causes of the epidemic such as poverty, homophobia and racism.

Executive Director:
Julie Davids (x 10)
Director of Policy and Leadership Development:
Coco Jervis (x 50)
Manager of Operations and Programs:
James Learned (x 60)
Online Organizer:
Cameron Lefevre (x 80)
Community Organizer and Trainer:
Waheedah Shabazz-El, 267-983-8036
Research and Administrative Assistant:
Josh Thomas (x 30)

Board of Directors

Chair:

Dr. Walt Senterfitt, PhD, RN, MPH Board Co-Chair Epidemiologist and IRB Administrator, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services; Co-Chair, Southern California HIV Advocacy Coalition

Secretary:

Judith Dillard Health Educator, Fort Worth, TX

Treasurer:

Dr. Jeff Maskovsky Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College

CHAMP's Solidarity Project/Proyecto Solidaridad provides information on key HIV/AIDS issues that affect people in the United States and around the world. We also provide conversation starters and training exercises to spark dialogue on challenging issues in our own communities. The monthly newsletter is available in English and Spanish.

Current Solidarity Project Issue: What is Prevention Justice? Why a Mobilization? click here to download Issue #7

HIV Prevention Research Advocacy: Mobilizing a national network
100 grassroot advocates gathered in LA from across the US to learn and share research advocacy skills Here's what we discussed: notes and presentations

Youth-Led Campaign for Condom Access!

Public Forum Reports: The Politics of HIV Prevention
Our series at the LGBT Center of New Yorks offers a spectrum of issues and debates Get the coverage here

Click here to help the movement to fight AIDS with a tax-deductible donation to CHAMP

Thank you for your support: • AIDS Community Action Foundation • Bread and Roses Community Fund • Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS • Calamus Fund • Ford Foundation • Ittleson Foundation • Gesso Foundation • Golden Rule Foundation • Harm Reduction Fund of the Tides Foundation • The Jim and Lynn Levinson Fund of the Erie Community Trust • John M. Lloyd Foundation • M.A.C. Fund • Ms. Foundation • New York City AIDS Fund • Overbrook Foundation • Public Welfare Foundation • Resist! • Sara Weaver Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation • Sonya Staff Foundation • Stonewall Community Foundation • and to our individual donors, fellows, interns and volunteers!

Board of Directors

At Large Members

Angela Ards Author and Journalist, Princton, NJ

Robert E. Fullilove, EdD Associate Dean, Community and Minority Affairs, Columbia University; Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health

Naomi Long Project Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Benedict Francisco Maulbeck Hispanics in Philanthropy

Mark McLaurin Director of Public Policy and Legislative Affairs
Public Justice Center

Craig Miller Founder and President, MZA Events

Susan Wolfson Founder and CEO, Sensei Health Communications