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Southern AIDS Coalition Calls for Southern Governors to Enact Statewide Shelter in Place Mandates
COVID-19 can be a mortal threat to those with compromised or weakened immune systems, including those with HIV (particularly those with detectable viral loads). The number of individuals with the virus continues to dramatically increase each day. Southern AIDS...
SAC COVID-19 Response
Greetings Partners and Friends, At Southern AIDS Coalition, our top priority and mission is protecting and advocating for the health and wellness of the communities and individuals we serve, particularly those impacted by HIV and other health disparities. The threat...
Southern AIDS Strategy Initiative Releases Report Highlighting Incomplete Gender-Identity Data Collection in Deep South States
HIV Surveillance Data is Barrier to Allocating Resources to Serve Transgender Persons The Southern AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI), a groundbreaking research initiative now housed at the Southern AIDS Coalition, has released The Transgender Surveillance Report:...
INAUGURAL SOUTHERN HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY CHOOSES BIRMINGHAM TO ANNOUNCE MOVEMENT TO SOLVE SOUTHERN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC
Tuesday, August 20, the South’s leading HIV/AIDS advocate, Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC), hosts the inaugural Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD) in Birmingham, Alabama. SHAAD is an opportunity to bring people together from across the...
Southern Aids Coalition Assumes Role as Regional Clearinghouse for Research for Eliminating HIV/AIDS Stigma
Birmingham, Alabama — Professor Carolyn McAllaster, long-time leader and founder of the Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) recently announced her retirement from the Duke University School of Law. Since 2011, SASI has served in an...
Southern AIDS Coalition to Partner with Four Organizations to Pilot HIV-Related Stigma Reduction Interventions Across the U.S. South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC) announced today the next phase of its work to identify scalable and fundable programs that are effective at reducing HIV-related stigma in the South. In addition to funding nine organizations to implement their own...
NWGHAAD: Let Us Lift Them Up
On March 10th of every year, there are countless articles, acknowledgements, and events highlighting and celebrating women living with HIV/AIDS. It is also a day that spotlights prevention, testing, and awareness among all women. While these are all important, what...
COMPASS Initiative® Funds 32 Organizations to Transform the HIV Epidemic in the South
For Immediate Release COMPASS Initiative® Funds 32 Organizations to Transform the HIV Epidemic in the South Atlanta, Georgia (December 1, 2018) – In recognition of the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day and in support of the united efforts to address HIV/AIDS-related...
SAC Hosts Transforming the South Roundtables
By Mardrequs Harris, Senior Manager of Capacity Building Assistance The Southern AIDS Coalition is committed to addressing stigma in its many forms (e.g., racism, homophobia, transphobia), including the stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors that many of us experience...
Gina Brown: I Have a Secret
For most of my adult life I identified as a heterosexual woman. See, my family, community, and society told me I was supposed to like boys/men. After all, I was a girl, right? I was raised with the notion that girls date boys, not other girls. Don’t get me wrong,...
