Co-Sponsors

AIDS Project of the East Bay - www.apeb.org

Alameda County Public Health Department Office of AIDS Administration - www.acphd.org/default.asp

California Department of Health Services Office of AIDS - www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ooa/

California Syringe Exchange Network - www.nasen.org/sandiego/casen.htm

Centerforce – www.centerforce.org

Clean Needles Now - www.cleanneedlesnow.org

Harm Reduction Therapy Center - www.harmreductiontherapy.org

HCV Support Project

Health Initiatives for Youth - www.hify.com

HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County - www.casasegura.org

La Clínica de la Raza - www.laclinica.org

Mental Health Association of San Francisco - www.mha-sf.org

Mission Neighborhood Resource Center

Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution - www.berkeleyneed.org

Safer Alternatives thru Networking and Education

San Diego Clean Needle Exchange - www.nasen.org/sandiego/nep.htm

San Francisco Needle Exchange Program

San Francisco Sheriff's Department - www.sfsheriff.com

San Francisco State University Department of Health Education - www.sfsu.edu/~hed

St. James Infirmary - www.stjamesinfirmary.org

The Institute for Gay Men's Health: A collaboration between APLA and GMHC - www.apla.org/prevention/institute.html

The San Diego Harm Reduction Center - www.nasen.org/sandiego/nep.htm

Trinitywolf Network - www.trinitywolf.net

Walden House, Inc - www.waldenhouse.org

AIDS Action - www.aidsaction.org

Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition

Break the Chains

Common Sense for Drug Policy - www.csdp.org

Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project - www.champnetwork.org

Critical Resistance - www.criticalresistance.org

DanceSafe - www.dancesafe.org

Drug Policy Alliance - www.drugpolicy.org

Family Justice Inc - www.familyjustice.org

Generation 5 - www.generationfive.org

Harm Reduction Project - www.harmredux.org/welcome.html

Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates - www.harmreductioncounseling.com/

Hawai'i Department of Health /STD AIDS Prevention Branch http://www.hawaii.gov/health/healthy-lifestyles/std-aids/index.html

Hepatitis C Ambassador's Program –www.hepcchallenge.org/

HOOK

Housing Works - www.housingworks.org

Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative - www.idpi.us

Latino Commission on AIDS - www.latinoaids.org

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - www.lifelongaidsalliance.org

Moderation Management - www.moderation.org/

National Advocates for Pregnant Woman - www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org

National Alliance of Methadone Advocates - www.methadone.org

National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors - www.nastad.org

National Association of People with AIDS - www.napwa.org

National Minority AIDS Council - www.nmac.org

National Native American AIDS Prevention Center - www.nnaapc.org

The Native American AIDS Project

Network of Sex Work Projects - www.nswp.org

North American Syringe Exchange Network - www.nasen.org

North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc.

November Coalition - www.november.org

Prostitutes of NY - www.bayswan.org/PONY.html

Sage Association Inc - www.sageways.com/index.cfm

San Antonio AIDS Foundation - www.txsaaf.org/

The AIDS Institute - www.theaidsinstitute.org

Argentinean Harm Reduction Association - www.infoarda.org.ar/

Canadian Harm Reduction Coalition - www.canadianharmreduction.com/

Caribbean Harm Reduction Coalition - http://caribbeanharmreductioncoalition.htmlplanet.com/

Intercambios

International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment - www.opiateaddictionrx.info

Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute of Beth Israel - www.opiateaddictionrx.info/aboutus/aboutus01.html

Latin America Drug Policy Reform Network (REFORMA)

Psicotropicus - www.psicotropicus.org

Stichting Adviesburo Drugs - www.adviesburodrugs.nl

Supporting Sponsors

amfAR

Broadway Cares - www.bcefa.org

The California Endowment - www.calendow.org

The Comer Foundation - www.comer-foundation.com/home.html

East Bay Community Foundation - www.eastbaycf.org

van Ameringen Foundation, Inc. - www.vanamfound.org

Tides Foundation - www.tidesfoundation.org

The AIDS Institute (Florida/Washington DC)

Program Committee

David Acosta,AIDS Activities Coordinating Office –

Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA

Sherilyn Adams,Larkin Street Youth Center, San Francisco, CA

Zina Age,Aniz, Inc., Atlanta, GA

Lois Ahrens,The Real Cost of Prisons Project, Northampton, MA

Phyllis Baker,Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN

Paola Barahona,PreventionWorks!, Washington, DC

D. Scott Batey,Health Services Center, Inc., Anniston, AL

Karen Batia,Midwest Harm Reduction Institute –

Heartland Health Outreach, Chicago, IL

Jordan S Beedoe,The Wright Focus Group, Inc., Greensboro, NC

Alice Bell, Prevention Point Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA

Mona Bennett , Atlanta Harm Reduction Center, Atlanta, GA

Blackberri,Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, San Francisco, CA

Tracy Bumpus,Housing Works, New York, NY

Mike Bunyard,Roseburg Risk Reduction, Roseburg, OR

Emily Byram,amfAR, Washington, DC

Dyhan Cardona,Homeless Healthcare L.A., Los Angeles CA

George M. Carter,FIAR, Brooklyn, NY

Holly Catania,International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment, New York, NY

Daniel Church,Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plains, MA

Cyndee Clay,Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, Washington, DC

Luciano Colonna,Harm Reduction Project, Salt Lake City, UT

Ron Crowder,Street Works, Nashville, TN

Stephen Crowe,Cambridge Cares About AIDS, Cambridge, MA

Chinazo Cunningham,Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Corinna Dan,Chicago Department Of Public Healt,h Chicago, IL

Jessica Dell,Independent, Brooklyn, NY

Melissa Ditmore , Network of Sex Work Projects, New York, NY

Arlene Donar,Private Practitioner, Naturopath, New York, NY

Harry Etheridge , Atlanta Harm Reduction Center, Atlanta, GA

William Etzler,SFGH Ward93, San Francisco, CA

Phillip Fiuty,New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM

Lourdes Follins, Independent, Bronx, NY

Yves-Michel Fontaine,Independent, New York, NY

Al Forbes,Independent, Boston, MA

Micah Frazier,TrinityWolf Network, Oakland, CA

Tony Garcia-Pelaez,JSI Research and Training Institute, Denver, CO

Marguerite Gebhardt,Project Samaritan Health Services, Inc., Jamaica, NY

Camila Gelpi-Acosta,CitiWide Harm Reduction, Bronx, NY

Carmen B. Gomez,Iguales a Vos, West Orange, NJ

Gregg Gonsalves,Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, NY

Yvonne M. Green,HIV Community Coalition, Washington, DC

Jenine Guerriere,Independent, Oakland, CA

Curt Harrell,Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition, San Antonio, TX

Shira Hassan,Chicago Recovery Alliance- Young Women Empowerment Project, Chicago, IL

Imani Henry,Independent, Brooklyn, NY

Kelly Hill,BABES Network, Seattle, WA

Kimya Hodari , Grady Hospital – Infectious Disease Program, Atlanta, GA

Ann Hoey,South Texas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Laredo, TX

James Hundley,Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Teresa C. Hurst,Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Jina Jibrin,Youth for Prevention, Action and Change through Thought, Dorchester, MA

Reena John,Women's HIV Collaborative, New York, NY

Fred Johnson, Independent, New York, NY

Larry Kairaiuak,The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Oakland, CA

Billie-Jean Kanios,Walden House, San Francisco, CA

Elizabeth Ketcham,San Diego Harm Reduction Center, Encinitas, CA

Joanne King,Harlem East Life Plan, New York, NY

Susan Kingston,Public Health – Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA

Ana Kosok,Moderation Management, New York, NY

Patrick Kroupa,MindVox, Miami, FL

Carolyn Melenani Kuali'I,National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Oakland, CA

Yosenio V. Lewis,San Francisco Sheriff's Department, San Francisco, CA

Don Little,Oklahoma Native American AIDS Coalition, Oklahoma City, OK

Alain Litwin,Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Valley Cottage, NY

Shane Luitjens,HOOK, New York, NY

Heather Lusk,Hawaii Department of Health STD/ AIDS Prevention Branch, Honolulu, HI

Belinda Lyons,Mental Health Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Loris Mattox,HIV Education and Prevention Project Alameda County, Oakland, CA

Anibal Mejia,Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, San Francisco, CA

Alberto Mendoza,Drug Policy Alliance, Los Angeles, CA

Laura Mintz,Young Women’s Empowerment Project, Chicago, IL

Luis F. Molano,Community Healthcare Network, Bronx, NY

Pamela Mund,Montefiore Medical Center/CitiWide Harm Reduction Program, Bronx, NY

Shannon Murray,Lamp Community, Los Angeles, CA

Veronica Neal,Independent, San Francisco, CA

Ari Neulight,Mission Housing Development Corporation, San Francisco, CA

Michael Ninburg,Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA

Kris Nyrop,Street Outreach Services, Seattle, WA

Ben Perkins , AIDS Action Committee of Massachussetts,Boston, MA

Jim Pickett,AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rafael Ponce,Bronx District Public Health Office, Bronx, NY

Arun Prabhakaran,Youth Health Empowerment Project, Philadelphia, PA

Herschelle Reaves-Mackey,Springfield Users Council, Springfield, MA

James Reinke,AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Jill Rips,San Antonio AIDS Foundation, San Antonio, TX

Antonio M. Rivera,MTFA/Faces, New York, NY

Nuris Rodriguez,AIDS Center of Queens County, Rego Park, NY

Rebecca Rodriguez , Health Initiatives for Youth, San Francisco, CA

Alessandra Ross, California Department of Health Services – Office of AIDS, Sacramento, CA

Bamby Salcedo , Bienestar, Los Angeles, CA

Lorren Sandt,Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors Program, Oregon City, OR

Shoshanna Scholar,Clean Needles Now, Los Angeles, CA

Laurie Schowalter,National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC

Roseanne Scotti,New Jersey Drug Policy Project – Drug Policy Alliance, Trenton, NJ

Ann Shindo,Oregon Department of Human Services, Portland, OR

Lisa Shoemaker,Whatcom County Health and Human Services, Bellingham, WA

Stephen D Simon,City of Los Angeles AIDS Coordinator's Office, Los Angeles, CA

Susan H. Simon,Hepatitis C Association, Scotch Plains, NJ

Michele Sosa,Positive Health Project, Inc.,New York, NY

Vaughn Spriggs,HIV Community Coalition, Washington, DC

Andrew Tatarsky,Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates, New York, NY

Andi Thomas,Hep–C Alert, North Miami, FL

Beth Wehrman,LifeGuard, Le Claire, IA

Darrell Wheeler,Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, NY

Daniel Wilson,St. James Infirmary,San Francisco, CA

Imani Woods,Progressive Solutions, Brooklyn, NY

Thelma Wright,North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc., Jamestown, NC

Barry Zack,Centerforce, San Rafael, CA

Dominick V. Zurlo,Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Albuquerque, NM

Research Committee

Nadia Abdala,Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT

Ricky N. Bluthenthal,RAND, Santa Monica, CA

Naomi Braine , Beth Israel Medical Center – Chemical Dependency Institute, New York, NY

Ric Curtis,John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

Brian Edlin , Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Sam Friedman,National Development and Research Institutes, New York, NY

Lauretta Grau,Yale University, New Haven, CT

Holly Hagan,National Development and Research Institutes – Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, New York, NY

Robert Heimer,Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Kevin Irwin,Yale School of Sociology, New Haven, CT

Sonia Kandathil,amfAR, Washigton, DC

Kaveh Khoshnood,Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT

Kate McCoy,Montefiore Medical Center – Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Bronx, NY

Josiah Rich,Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI

Diana Rossi,Intercambios Asociación Civil,Buenos Aires, Argentina

George R. Sharpe,Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Jo Sotheran,Upstream Consulting, Brooklyn, NY

Tom Stopka,California Office of AIDS, Sacramento, CA

Barbara Tempalski,National Development and Research Institutes – Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, New York, NY

Stephanie Tortu,Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA