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Speak
Out!
New
York City Communities of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition (NYCCOCHAC)
Formed
in February 2001, the New York
City Communities of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition (NYCCOCHAC)
is comprised of hundreds of people living with
AIDS and HIV, advocates, activists and service providers from
over 30 AIDS and social service organizations, churches
and networks. NYCCOCHAC seeks to end the disparities in HIV/AIDS
funding that have systematically worked against NYC’s
communities of color by building alliances to garner city
tax-levy resources for HIV and AIDS prevention and care services
specifically targeted to organizations controlled by people
of color serving communities of color.
Get
involved in fighting for New York City tax-levy money for HIV/AIDS
in communities of color. Last year NYCCOCHAC was instrumental
in getting 2.6 million dollars in city tax-levy money, we
need much more than that to fight this disease in our communities.
In FY '07/08, NYCCOCHAC will ask the New York City Council to restore these dollars.
In addition NYCCOCHAC will be doing a parallel track and it will be asking the Mayor Bloomberg for $17 million
dollars over a three-year period to address the alarming rates
of HIV/AIDS in communities of color--especially in women and
young people of color.
Sound
Public Health Demands That We:
1. Create AIDS
Health Networks to bring down AIDS morbidity rates in the
hardest-hit areas here in NYC
* the South Bronx
* North/Central Brooklyn
* Central and East Harlem
2.
Expand Testing and Counseling throughout all of New York City
3.
Link those that test HIV positive to medical care and other
vital supports
such as mental health and substance abuse services, and housing
referrals.
4. Give those that test HIV negative but are at high-risk
for becoming positive, the HIV risk-reduction counseling and
peer support programs that will keep
them virus-fee.
For
more information, contact HIlda Melore, Voices of Women of
Color Against HIV/AIDS at 917-853-4835 or
terri smith-caronia,
Housing Works at 917-734-1808 or
347-473-7418
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