Regional Meetings

World AIDS Day Leadership Conference
November 16-17, 2009
Columbus, OH

Taking Action Together: A New Era in HIV Care
March 4-5, 2010
Little Rock, AR

Positive Living
March 12-14, 2010
Ft. Walton Beach, FL

NAPWA is a proud participant of the Combined Federal Campaign. Please remember to specify your contribution to CFC# 12094.

SABER (meaning “to know” in Spanish) is an acronym for Salud (Health), Acción (Action), Bienestar (Wellbeing), Educación (Education), and Respecto (Respect). SABER coalitions consist of community-based and governmental partners that focus on HIV testing events for Latinos in their regions. SABER team captains are in diverse areas, including Chicago, New York City, Miami, Orlando, El Paso, San Antonio, Los Angeles, District of Columbia, Baltimore, San Juan, and Columbus.

In 2007, SABER team captains used the skills developed over the past few years to present at the Ohio AIDS Leadership Conference, the National Latinos and AIDS Conference, the HIV Prevention Leadership Summit, and the US Conference on AIDS.

Team Captain Contacts

Google Group

Tool Kit

Community Mapping

Community Mapping NAPWA collaborates with the Latino Commission on AIDS to present a two-day Community Mapping curriculum that will demonstrate:

• Community Mapping as a practical method for HIV program design and event planning;

• Community Mapping as an instrument to Community Assessment in HIV;

• Community Mapping to improve efficacy of HIV-testing and service referral efforts; and

• Community Mapping as a tool for grants, community planning, and planning and implementing comprehensive HIV testing events.

Community mapping is an exploratory process that engages people in learning about their community so that they make informed decisions about where to focus their efforts in creating sustainable community networks. Training participants develop maps that reveal information important to them about the work that they are doing, such as the locations of resources that facilitate the implementation of HIV testing sites, access to HIV care services, and development of community groups.