Ending the Epidemic Older Adults and HIV Statewide Advisory Group
The Ending the Epidemic Older Adults and HIV Statewide Advisory Group was formed in response to meetings convened in the summer and fall of 2015 by ACRIA. The Advisory Group’s mandate over the first six months of 2016 was to develop “guiding principles/implementation strategies” for working with Older Adults (50+) at risk and living with HIV in support of the NYS Blueprint to End the AIDS Epidemic (Blueprint). The long term purpose was to make the blueprint specific to the needs of older adults and provide a statewide tool for advocacy through 2020 and beyond.
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To be an inclusive statewide effort the Advisory Group reached out to AIDS, aging, faith-based, medical, community-based, and LGBTproviders, in addition to community members.
The Full Advisory Group would review strategies and help develop our final recommendations. In addition some members were asked to work on sub-committees of the Core Advisory Group to develop specific strategies in which they had expertise while others reviewed drafts or segments of this manuscript during the process of its development. The full group consisted of 77 individuals.
The Core Advisory Group required attendance in-person at six monthly meetings alternately in Albany and New York City between January and June 2016, and additional subcommittee work as needed in order to develop, draft and present the strategy recommendations to the Full Advisory Group and, upon endorsement, to the New York State AIDS Advisory Council for statewide adoption. The core group consisted of 21 individuals.
