National HIV PrEP Summit
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) requires our movement to create or adapt existing HIV prevention initiatives, testing & education programs, and prevention & care strategies to align with this science NMAC is concerned that biomedical HIV prevention will be used primarily by people with access to private healthcare. The epidemic may end in select communities while it continues to ravage society’s have-nots. Given the new nature of these challenges, NMAC will host a conference for 400 leaders. We will bring them together to learn, debate, and build or reinvent models of HIV prevention that integrates the science of PrEP into our overall strategy to end the HIV epidemic in America.
NMAC’s Goals
- Access to quality PrEP services for people of color,
- Collaboratively build the infrastructure needed to support biomedical HIV prevention,
- Bring together leaders and insure diversity.
This meeting will not argue the science of PrEP, that is a given. Instead it will focus on the implementation and infrastructure needed to turn the promise of the science into an effective community level HIV prevention initiative. Can we take what works in the lab and make it relevant to the daily lives of people at risk for HIV?