National Association Of People With Aids

Programs: Community mobilization and leadership development for people living with hiv/aids: napwa represents 1. 2 million people living with hiv/aids (plwha) in america. Napwa is the largest, oldest and most trusted voice for plwha. Napwa's annual plwha conference "healthy living summit" is a preeminent educational forum for people living with hiv/aids. The summit increases knowledge of hiv prevention with positives, clinical trials, and provides skills for maintaining individual adherence to hiv care and treatment regimens. Napwa provides early intervention services through its peer navigation program and national community mobilization models for special populations (latino/hispanic and african- american). Napwa provides technical assistance to local and state health departments and community-based organizations in order to rapidly increase hiv testing and linkage to care.

education and outreach: national hiv testing day, national gay men's hiv /aids awareness day, the mayors' campaign against hiv, as well as our signature institutes for hiv positive women, youth and men demonstrate the breadth of napwa's education and outreach programs. Napwa's positive voice newsletter has an estimated circulation of 100,000 copies. It is also posted on the napwa website (www. Napwa. Org), promoted on facebook and twitter. Napwa's staff are regularly featured guest presenters at local and national conferences. Members of napwa's leadership team are frequently interviewed by press and featured in social marketing campaigns. The aforementioned items illustrate napwa's extensive reach.

public policy: napwa educates the public, local and national policy makers, including congress and other elected officials about critical health issues for people living with hiv/aids. Napwa organizes aidswatch, the nation's largest grassroots hiv/aids constituent-based hiv/aids event designed to educate members of congress in the needs of the hiv community.