Our mission is to end the HIV epidemic in the South through federal advocacy, capacity building and education, and grassroots organizing.
SAC is a non-partisan coalition of government, community, and business leaders working alongside thousands of individual members to end the HIV epidemic in the South. We are a non-partisan coalition of government, community, and business partners working alongside thousands of individual members. For more than fifteen years, we have promoted accessible and high-quality systems of HIV prevention and care across sixteen southern states and the District of Columbia.
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ONE WEEK LEFT: We're hiring an Executive Assistant, Health Department Initiatives Manager, and Grants Manager!
Join a completely remote, woman-led team with great benefits. Including individual medical, dental, and life insurance at no cost to the employee and generous paid time off: https://southernaidscoalition.org/careers/
Reminder!! We're hiring an Executive Assistant, Health Department Initiatives Manager, and Grants Manager!
Join a completely remote, woman-led team with great benefits. Including individual medical, dental, and life insurance at no cost to the employee and generous paid time off: https://southernaidscoalition.org/careers/
With your help, 2023 will be just as dynamic as 2022. Your gift supports our efforts to build, support, and reach our collective goal to end the HIV epidemic in the South.
Donate today: https://southernaidscoalition.kindful.com/
Meet our newest team members! Our team members are dedicated to the fight to end the HIV epidemic in the South.
Read more about them here & apply for our open positions: https://southernaidscoalition.org/hiv-in-the-south/sac-staff-22/
🚨 We're hiring an Executive Assistant, Grants Manager, & Health Department Initiatives Manager.
Join a completely remote, woman-led team with great benefits. Including individual medical, dental, and life insurance at no cost to the employee and generous paid time off: https://southernaidscoalition.org/careers
Happy holidays from your 💙 We've been so blessed to have so many moments virtually and in-person to work with community.
Cheers to more service in 2023! Take a look back at our highlights from 2022, and we'll see you when we get back from our break on January 9, 2023: https://southernaidscoalition.salsalabs.org/eoy22
As a community, we stood together through the constant attack on Trans youth to the Jackson water crisis. Continue working with us in the fight by supporting us as a member or donating before the end of 2022!
Donate today: https://southernaidscoalition.kindful.com/
While checking out those new positions, meet our newest team members! Our team members are dedicated to the fight to end the HIV epidemic in the South.
Read more about them here & apply for our open positions: https://southernaidscoalition.org/hiv-in-the-south/sac-staff-22/
This year and every year, we are rooted in community and we’re hoping you’ll continue to support us into the next 20 years and beyond.
Do the work with our partners and us by becoming a member or donating: https://southernaidscoalition.kindful.com/
Join our small but mighty crew of advocates working to end the HIV epidemic in the South! Join a completely remote, woman-led team with great benefits, including individual medical, dental, and life insurance at no cost to the employee and generous paid time off. SAC is hiring for an Executive Assistant, Grants Manager, and Health Department Initiatives Manager.
Learn more about the positions and apply to join the team here: https://southernaidscoalition.org/careers/
NOW AVAILABLE: TAG co-produced this fact sheet with our partners Covid-19 Prevention Network, Black AIDS Institute and Southern AIDS Coalition reviewing the research on breakthrough COVID-19 infections among people living with HIV.
Read it now: https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/publication/risk-of-breakthrough-covid-19-infections-and-disease-in-vaccinated-people-with-hiv/
Thank you GLAAD for highlighting our work with partners and Gilead Sciences on .
And shoutout to our newest ambassador, Roy Wood, Jr. 💙
Read more about from GLAAD here: https://www.glaad.org/blog/changing-pattern-us-southern-states
From in Atlanta to in Jackson—SAC is working with YOU and all southerners to end the HIV epidemic in the South. If you loved the work, we invite you to join the movement by the end of 2022.
Donate today: https://southernaidscoalition.kindful.com/
We need your voice! SAC is in the process of updating our Southern Manifesto. This document highlights HIV in the South and the policies required to ensure people in the South have access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment.
Take the survey and tell us what your Southern community needs: https://bit.ly/SouthernManifesto22
to our time in Montogomery, Selma, & Birmingham, Alabama, for last week 🙌🏾
Alabama, thank you again for hosting us, and please share your favorite moments from the exhibit and community programming.
Learn more: changethepattern.org
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With your help, 2023 will be just as dynamic as 2022. Your gift amplifies & supports multiple organizations to build together & achieve our collective goal to end the HIV epidemic in the South.
Donate today: https://southernaidscoalition.kindful.com/
Check out the New COMPASS Initiative Digital Resource Center! Not only can you access this searchable hub 24/7, you can also contribute to it! With your help we can create a robust digital hub to that supports individuals and organization working to end the HIV epidemic.
Learn more: https://www.gileadcompass.com/resource-center/
Join the movement and become a member of SAC today! SAC works to bridge community and end the HIV epidemic in the South. Support our grantees, our stigma reduction trainings, and more.
Become a member or donate here: https://southernaidscoalition.kindful.com/
Photos from Marvin Anderson's post
Photos from Central Alabama Alliance, Resource & Advocacy Center, Inc.'s post
With an inspiring week of in the books in Alabama, we would like to thank our amazing partners, the Southern AIDS Coalition and Gilead Sciences for their support and commitment to honoring Black and Brown lives lost to HIV and AIDS. https://www.changethepattern.org/
Had to post our fearless leaders in the partnership 💙
We’ve enjoyed you, Alabama! Excited to be in the
Today we're heading to Selma for a Lunch & Learn with the Black LGBTQ+ community with The Knights & Orchids Inc. - TKO. Also, check us out in the Christmas parade as we honor Black and brown stories from the quilt.
Learn more: bit.ly/CtP_RSVP
AIDS Memorial Quilt Gilead Sciences
: Yesterday, during , Marnina Miller, Community Outreach Associate, joined Robin Young for NPR's Here & Now to discuss living with HIV in the South.
Listen here: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/12/01/living-with-hiv-world-aids-day
continues today with Roy Wood, Jr. from The Daily Show and Dean Jonathan Lee Walton from Faith Compass WFU as we wrap up our Montgomery activation.
Join our Love & Activism luncheon with Dean Jonathan Lee Walton at . Then, in the evening, watch AIDS Memorial Quilt's film "Surviving & Thriving" and talkback with Roy Wood, Jr. at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Register for these events here: bit.ly/CtP_RSVP
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Prevención y avances de una cura definitiva: lo que debes saber sobre el sida en su día mundial
El 1 de diciembre es el Día Mundial de la Lucha contra el Sida, un día que, de acuerdo con Will Ramírez, gerente de políticas públicas de Southern AIDS Coalition, es una oportunidad para que la comunidad cree consciencia sobre el VIH. A su vez, con resp...
Join HIVinfo.NIH.gov's NIH commemoration today at 1 PM ET. Join federal leaders, distinguished guests, including SAC's Executive Director, Dafina Ward, and the broader HIV research community for a live, virtual discussion on “Progress and Promise in HIV Research” as the NIH marks World AIDS Day 2022.
bit.ly/3FbLi40
Changing the Pattern starts with us! See the AIDS Memorial Quilt display in Birmingham City Hall from Nov. 29th - Dec. 2nd as we honor Black and Brown lives lost to / .
It's and we're celebrating it with a Red Party in Montgomery this evening featuring comedian Kia Comedy! You can also join a conversation with Executive Director, Dafina Ward, and HIVinfo.NIH.gov at 1 PM ET.
Let's celebrate the progress and continue to work to so we can end the HIV epidemic in the South
bit.ly/CtP_RSVP
Our first day in Montgomery, Alabama, for was fantastic! Thanks again The Knights & Orchids Inc. - TKO, Alabama Public Health, Central Alabama Alliance, Resource & Advocacy Center, Inc., Alabama State University, and more for showing up to launch our Alabama campaign 🫶🏾💙
RSVP for our full week of events: bit.ly/CtP_RSVP
AIDS Memorial Quilt Gilead Sciences
Change The Pattern Alabama launch! Thanks to our partners National AIDS Memorial and Gilead Sciences! Also, thank you to our community partners Central Alabama Alliance, Resource & Advocacy Center, Inc., The Knights & Orchids Inc. - TKO, and Selma AIR 💙
Look forward to more events happening all this week in Alabama!
Change The Pattern Alabama launch!
It's ! You all already know we're thankful for you, but show our COMPASS Initiative Grantee Partners some love too!
Arkansas Black Gay Men's Forum Borderland Rainbow Center Community Health- Prevention Intervention Education and Research Gender Benders HEROES HYPE To Empower, Inc. LILA Latinx LGBTQ Initiative Mississippi Center for Justice Pride Center at Equality Park
We're rounding out our team birthdays for the year with the lovely Marnina Miller 👸🏾
Thank you for your work with community throughout the year. Join us in saying happy birthday to Marnina and watch her feature on VICE https://youtu.be/Bu4yuPNYC0M
STARTING WEDNESDAY: FREE events and programming, all designed to reimagine ending the HIV epidemic in the South, are happening in Montgomery, AL, THIS WEEK from November 30–December 4. Don't miss the largest display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Alabama honoring Black and Brown lives lost to HIV/AIDS.
Changethepattern.org
AIDS Memorial Quilt Gilead Sciences
Calling our Alabama community to join us with AIDS Memorial Quilt & Gilead Sciences to discuss how we can strengthen our fight against HIV in the South.
Come to our coffee chat and get to know our team at on 12/2 at 2 PM CT
View more events at changethepattern.org
Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for our supporters, partners, and funders. YOU keep Southern AIDS Coalition rooted in community because that's where the work is happening.
Faithfully, we're standing with you in the fight to end HIV in The South 💙
Hey Alabama State University! is coming to you soon with FREE programming honoring Black & Brown lives lost to AIDS. Join us on campus on 11/30 for where you and your peers discuss how college students across the South can end the HIV epidemic.
Learn more: Changethepattern.org
AIDS Memorial Quilt Gilead Sciences
SAC will be closed starting tomorrow through Friday! We'll be sending out updates on and the events that will be happening in Alabama next week so stay tuned.
View the full schedule of events in our latest email: https://southernaidscoalition.salsalabs.org/thanksgiving_2022
Happy birthday to Will Ramirez, our Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy! 🥳🎉 Though you've been with the team for a short time, we appreciate you showing up for SAC!
We hope your day is as fantastic as you are! 💙
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We're connecting with community for FREE events and activities in Jackson, MS, and surrounding communities TODAY–October 4 for #ChangeThePattern View the largest display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Mississippi honoring Black and Brown lives lost to AIDS! Learn more: www.changethepattern.org Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Gilead Sciences National AIDS Memorial, New York
The "For The Long Haul" webinar is now available to watch whenever you want here on Facebook. Learn about the findings from "The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Organizations Providing Services for People Living with HIV and Gender and Sexual Minorities in the Deep South" and hear from a panel of community experts.
Last week we joined @treatmentactiongroup and @blackaids for a conversation in commemoration of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. Check out the conversation and tell us what you think! #HVAD #HIVInTheSouth • • • • • #HIV #AIDS #SAC #TreatmentActionGroup #PLHIV #WomenInHIV #South #HIVStigma #BlackAIDSInstitute #SouthernHealth #DeepSouth #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #History #SouthernHistory #SouthernAdvocacy #Advocacy #Leadership #Education #PrEP #StopHIV #GetTested #EndHIVStigma
SOS is back this Summer in Atlanta, GA!! Join us August 18–21, for the Saving Ourselves Symposium: The Black Print. Registration and more details about the event come in May 2022! Save the date! sosexperience.org #TheBlackPrint #SOSExperience2022
GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT: We're highlighting our COMPASS Initiative SPARK! Grants partner Positive People Network based in Miami, Florida! They work to improve the quality of life for People Living With HIV. Learn more & follow them for more updates: https://positivepeoplenetworkinc.org/ #PPN #HIVInTheSouth #SPARKForChange
Join Southern AIDS Coalition on January 24, for a conversation with young Cisgender women of color leading the fight to end the HIV epidemic in the Deep South. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, late-stage HIV is still one of the top 10 causes of death in women between the ages of 20-44 years old. This community discussion will help amplify the voices of young women of color who live in the intersection of residing in the Deep South while simultaneously working to help end the HIV epidemic.
We asked Southern women in our Gilead @beourcompass network to share some words for National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Watch, share, and continue to support and uplift women and girls in HIV. Learn more about #NWGHAAD at the #LinkInBio #TransformTheSouth #HIVInTheSouth • • • • • #HIV #AIDS #SAC #GileadSciences #COMPASSInotiative #WomenInHIV #SouthernAIDSCoalition #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM22 #South #SouthernHealth #DeepSouth #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #History #SouthernHistory #SouthernAdvocacy #Advocacy #Leadership #Education #PrEP #StopHIV #GetTested
We asked Southern women in our Gilead COMPASS Initiative network to share some words for National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Watch, share, and continue to support and uplift women and girls in HIV. Learn more about #NWGHAAD here: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html #TransformTheSouth #HIVInTheSouth
#FBF to when we asked y'all to tell us your stories and now we've compiled them all. Thank you for joining the movement and supporting SAC. Continue to follow us, donate, & support! View the full video of southern solutions and stories at: https://share.vidday.com/o-2cmxbz #SHAAD21
Today is World Science Day for Peace and Development and we're launching our new sharing and learning platform, Southern Science! We all know that HIV needs innovation: innovative minds and methods to keep people learning and to stop the spread of stigma & misinformation. It’s time to make science accessible for everyone, that’s why HIV Vaccine Trials Network & SAC created Southern Science. With graphics from The HIVe, we want to give you all the info you’ll need to #EndTheHIVEpidemic in the South. Watch the trailer and learn more at southernaidscoalition.org/southern-science. #SouthernScience #HVTN
#TBT to when we asked y'all to tell us your stories and now we've compiled them all. Thank you for joining the movement and supporting SAC. Continue to follow us, donate, & support! View the full video of southern solutions and stories at: https://share.vidday.com/o-2cmxbz #SHAAD21
#TBT to when we asked y'all to tell us your stories and now we've compiled them all. Thank you for joining the movement and supporting SAC. Continue to follow us, donate, & support! View the full video of southern solutions and stories at: https://share.vidday.com/o-2cmxbz #SHAAD21
The Athens (GA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated cordially invites you to participate in a dynamic virtual panel discussion on HIV and Aging, Saturday September 18th at 10:00 am EST to commemorate National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. #HIVandAging We are honored to be among the Links HELP (HIV Education Leadership and Prevention) grantees and look forward to you joining our discussion.
Live Post-VMAs!!!!!!!
Join us today at 4 pm EST for the premiere of My Faith. My Story as we observe National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
At the beginning of the month, we asked y'all to tell us your stories and now we've compiled them all. Thank you for joining the movement and supporting SAC. Continue to follow us, donate, & support! Share the southern solutions and stories here: https://share.vidday.com/o-2cmxbz #SHAAD21
Join Southern AIDS Coalition Board Member, Robin Webb, as we close out Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. “And how do we end the epidemic? We do so by dismantling old paradigms, reaching deep in our hearts, and discovering a new vision for the South.”—Robin Webb, Mississippi Positive Network/My Brother's Keeper This event will start at 3 PM CT/4 PM ET on SAC's Facebook Live & YouTube Live.
In commemoration of Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD), Let’s Stop HIV Together will host a roundtable discussion featuring transgender leaders living in the south. This dialogue seeks to increase transgender voices in the south on the topics of HIV and to bring awareness to stigma, mental health, and sustainability efforts that affect the transgender community. The outline below reflects the proposed topics and speakers for this event based on discussions held with SAC, CDC/DHAP National Partnerships Team, and Westat.
Join leaders of emerging organizations and funders for a conversation on how we support and sustain community-led efforts to end the HIV epidemic in the south. The conversation will be held at 11 AM CT/12 PM ET on the Southern AIDS Coalition Facebook & YouTube pages
Join the Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, Harold Phillips, and SAC’s Executive Director, Dafina Ward, for a conversation kicking off Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! How do we ensure that the southern HIV epidemic remains a federal priority? What shifts are needed to address the disproportionate impact of HIV in the South? What long-term impact could COVID-19 have on the accessibility of HIV services—and the HIV workforce? They’ll discuss that and more.
How do you act to inform your community and focus on solutions that can end the Southern HIV epidemic? This year's theme focuses on all aspects of ending the epidemic. Hear Abraham Johnson's Southern Solution & submit your own: bit.ly/SHAAD2021 #HIVInTheSouth #SHAAD21
THREE DAYS TILL #SHAAD21! Have you or your org supported, acted, or created change to help end the epidemic? Miguel from AmistadesHtx with Legacy Community Health wants you to visit on SHAAD to hear more stories! Share a video of what you are doing: https://share.vidday.com/o-2cmxbz #HIVInTheSouth #SouthernSolutions
ICYMI: The 2021 Transformative Grant Partners were announced this week 🙌🏾 Four grantees (The Normal Anomaly, TransinclusiveGroupfl, Positively U, Inc., and Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference) joined Sheryl Lee Ralph in a conversation for HIV Testing Day. Watch here: https://youtu.be/5rqVUpRiYTY #NHTD #TGP21
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