National Alliance Of State And Territorial Aids Directors

Programs: Global program: nastad has a global program supported primarily by the centers for disease control and prevention's (cdc) division of global hiv/aids through the united states president's emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar) as part of a unified united states government response to the global aids pandemic. Nastad's global program strengthens capacity of public sector organizations and their staff for the management of public heath prevention, care and treatment programs by working with government entities and non-governmental organizations. Nastad's international field offices are supported by nastad staff, state aids directors and their program staff for the provision of international peer-based technical assistance (ta), workshops and training, supportive supervision and delegation visits to address the needs of countries around the world. Support includes overall program planning and evaluation, global integration with domestic programs and global program support in international activities that yield domestic benefits.

prevention: nastad has a prevention and surveillance program funded largely through two cdc cooperative agreements to conduct capacity building/ta activities and communication in support of state and local hiv prevention programs. Capacity building activities focus on increasing capacity of health departments in the areas of hiv testing, prevention with positive individuals data-to-care activities and policy development. Ta activities include implementation of prevention strategies; communications with and ta for health departments; operation of a peer ta network, the prevention networking group (png); and periodic assessment of hiv prevention programs. Nastad's work also includes ta in the areas of effective high-impact hiv prevention interventions; hiv prevention for gay men of all races and ethnicities; hiv prevention for persons who inject drugs; hiv surveillance; social marketing; rapid and other hiv testing; integration of hiv, viral hepatitis, std and tuberculosis programs; and prevention of perinatal hiv transmission. Finally, nastad receives corporate and private foundation funding to provide states with ta for hiv testing, as well as drug user health.

health care access nastad has a cooperative agreement with the health resources and services administration (hrsa) to provide ta for aids drug assistance programs (adap) and ryan white part b programs program activities include a focus on adap clinical quality, as well as ta to adaps on various issues including implementation of the affordable care act (aca), insurance purchasing, integrated planning, financial forecasting, implementing quality measures and new data collection activities, developing and disseminating various materials, and implementing and monitoring drug pricing agreements nastad has an ongoing project supported by corporate donors to monitor and assess the status of state adaps authorized under part b of the ryan white program in addition to producing the national adap monitoring project annual report, the program provides ta to state adaps regarding various programmatic and fiscal issues nastad also convenes and supports the work of an adap crisis task force, made up of state aids directors and adap coordinators working on behalf of all state hiv/aids programs to improve the fiscal status of state adap programs this program is supported by the membership nastad conducts an adap technical assistance meeting each year for adap coordinators and aids directors it is supported through corporate contributions specifically for this purpose, and expenditures include staff time, travel and hotel for participants, and other general expenses related to conducting the meeting nastad also has an ongoing project supported primarily by corporate and foundation donors as well another hrsa grantee via a subcontract to provide ta to health departments and to monitor and assess the status of implementation of the aca at both the policy and programmatic levels this includes foundation funding to support ta and implementation of aca provisions for adaps, the activities of which consisted primarily of a series of regional meetings with health department staff.