Senior Director of Administration
Phone: (917) 435-8082
Email: kchan@harlemunited.org
Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc.
306 Lenox Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10027
www.harlemunited.org
KALI LINDSEY ON CLINTON FOUNDATION'S GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC H.I.V/AIDS PANEL
Harlem United's Senior Director of Federal Policy Participates in Panel Discussion with Former President Bill Clinton on World AIDS Day
NEW YORK, December 4, 2009 - Kali Lindsey, Harlem United's Senior Director of Federal Policy, participated in the Clinton Foundation's "Awareness, Access, Action: The Global and Domestic State of AIDS" panel discussion. The Foundation's goal was to discuss the current state of H.I.V/AIDS and take the opportunity to discuss next steps. The panel included former President Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation. "It was so important to hear one of the greatest leaders of our time support universal access to HIV screening, comprehensive sex education, quality and affordable care, and a steadfast commitment to research for all at risk or living with HIV/AIDS both in the United States and throughout the world" said Lindsey.The panel was moderated by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director, AIDS-Free World. Other participants included Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Director, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, C. Virginia Fields, President & CEO, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University and Linda P. Fried, Dean, Mailman School of Public Health.
Though the disease has become the forgotten epidemic, it still has a staggeringly dramatic impact globally and domestically. In November 2009, UNAIDS and WHO released a report with new data on the status of the H.I.V/AIDS epidemic. According to the report, approximately 33.4 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2008, up from 33 million people at the end of 2007. In the United States, every 9½ minutes, someone is infected with H.I.V.
Kali Lindsey recently joined Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc. as Senior Director for Federal Policy where he will focus on domestic H.I.V/AIDS policy to expand the organization's commitment to attaining timely evidence-based outcomes in the domestic H.I.V/AIDS epidemic. Lindsey will particularly focus on H.I.V status awareness among men who have sex with men (MSM) and issues pertaining to their access to healthcare and treatment. Previously, he worked with Porter Novelli Public Relations where he managed a social marketing campaign to increase H.I.V testing among young African American gay and bisexual men. Prior to that Lindsey served as the Vice President for Federal Government Affairs with the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) in Washington, DC where he developed policy positions and worked with national coalitions on Ryan White reauthorization, healthcare reform, and appropriations.
For almost three decades, Harlem United Community AIDS Center has provided high quality comprehensive H.I.V care, prevention and housing to clients regardless of race, socio-economic status or sexual orientation. For more information about Harlem United please visit www.harlemunited.org .
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