| | SAC Attack: News from the Front Lines | | | | Meet Venita Ray, SAC's First Deputy Director We are pleased to announce the appointment of Venita Ray as our new Deputy Director. Ray, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2003, is deeply committed to issues such as HIV decriminalization, meaningful involvement of PLHIV, and achieving racial justice in the domestic HIV movement. We think you'll agree that she makes the perfect addition to our family. Click HERE to learn more about Venita's appointment as Deputy Director. | | | | Gina Brown: Happy Seroversary to Me! Wow, 24 years! Who would have thought I'd be celebrating 24 years of living with HIV? Certainly not me. I thought I'd be dead long before this point in my life. Even in constantly confronting my own mortality, I made a conscious decision to keep living. Not saying I always live with purpose or a plan; sometimes I adjust my plan midway through the execution. Some days have been worse than others, but every day has been a gift that I cherish with everything in my heart. Click HERE to read the rest of Gina's remarkable story. | | | | New Intentional Advocacy E-Learning Course We had the great honor of partnering with the brilliant folks at ETR to develop an e-learning course to support grassroots HIV advocacy in the South. Funded by Gilead Sciences, this state-of-the-art online course leverages southern wisdom and experience to help individuals and organizations set the stage to engage in advocacy, assess their own advocacy "landscape," begin developing a customized plan, then strategize ways to implement and sustain their advocacy programs. Click HERE to read more about this new resource or HERE to start the course today. | | | | The EDIT Program at Northwestern Chats with Khafre This Thursday Later this week, Khafre will sit down for a live taping of the EDIT (Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance) Program's Community Spotlight Podcast. The series features conversations highlighting the importance of community engagement in improving the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority individuals. Click HERE to register for the Twitter livestream. | | | | JOIN US AT THE 2018 SAVING OURSELVES SYMPOSIUM IN BIRMINGHAM! | |  | The Saving Ourselves Symposium (SOS), hosted by The Red Door Foundation, addresses the health and wellness of the Black LGBTQ community in the South, focusing on HIV and other health disparities. SOS is an annual conference designed to provide cutting edge research, promising practices, and HIV/AIDS behavior change techniques in efforts to educate, encourage, and empower the Black LGBTQ community. Started in 2013, SOS is a one-of-a-kind conference that has provided first-hand information to service providers and service users working within and throughout the Black LGBTQ community. The Southern AIDS Coalition is proud to support SOS by sponsoring an opening reception at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Thursday, June 7, 2018. Please consider attending SOS and coming to see us at the reception. | | | | | | | | GET TESTED. Southerners are significantly less likely to know their HIV status as compared to other Americans, depriving us of the opportunity to preserve our health and avoid transmitting the virus to our partners. | | | | | GET PROTECTED. Now that a single pill taken once a day can help protect you from acquiring HIV, what are you waiting for? PrEP is approved by the FDA and has been shown to be safe and effective when taken daily. | | | | | GET CONNECTED. Staying healthy with HIV starts with keeping your CD4 count high and your viral load low, but it also includes eating healthy, exercising routinely, and taking care of your mental, emotional, and sexual health. | | | | | | | | | Contact Us Southern AIDS Coalition
P.O. Box 550249
Birmingham, Alabama 35255
(888) 745-2975
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