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Uniting to End the Epidemics – Operationalizing Health Equity July 20, 2017

OUR MISSION AND VISION MISSION: NASTAD’s mission is to end the intersecting epidemics of HIV, viral hepatitis, and related conditions by strengthening domestic and global governmental public health through advocacy, capacity building, and social justice. VISION: NASTAD's vision is a world free of HIV and viral hepatitis. 2

Uniting to End the Epidemics – Operationalizing Health Equity July 20, 2017

Uniting to End the Epidemics – Shelley Lucas, MPH Operationalizing Health Equity HIV/STD Prevention & Care Branch

Black, Hispanic, and Texas will become a place where new White gay men as well HIV infections are rare and when they as Black women do occur, every person will have comprised two out of unfettered access to high quality, life- three PLWH and three extending care, free from stigma out of four new HIV and discrimination. diagnoses in Texas over the last five years. Our Vision for Texas

- Health Equity Coordinator - Undoing Racism trainings (Creating Equity in HIV/STD Prevention, Care and Treatment) - Monthly Conversations on Equity - Texas Black Women’s Initiative - Texas Health Equity Summit - New program investments (GR) to prevent new infections, reduce transmission of disease, and improve patient care - 10M statewide - 2+M (GR) to support PrEP implementation in high morbidity areas across state through STI clinics and CBOs to reach uninsured and disproportionately impacted populations Operationalizing Health Equity

Be transparent Be present View leadership as a collective activity Engaging the Community

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