From: MPetrelis@aol.com Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:30:15 EDT Subject: CDC: Meetings for HIV prevention plan announced [Dear friends: I am pleased to inform you the CDC had a new meeting schedule to solicit public input on its new HIV prevention plan. As you may recall from an earlier posting of mine, the CDC was supposed to hold these meetings in July, and one was to happen in San Francisco, but that was scratched. Now, the meetings may happen, but the San Francisco meeting has been moved to Emeryville. Yep, even though we are going through "sub-Saharan African levels of transmission" for HIV in San Francisco, and what happens here is soon replicated around the nation and globe, so says AIDS, Inc., the meeting is now on across the bay. I'll be there. I hope you are too. And if you live near a city where one of these meetings is happening, go to it. You might also write to Lydia Ogden at the CDC, lxa3@cdc.gov , and get a copy of the strategic plan in its preliminary form. --MP] * * * Subj: Update: HIV Prevention STRATEGIC PLAN meetings Date: 8/2/00 5:43:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: lxa3@cdc.gov (Ogden, Lydia) To: MPetrelis@aol.com ('MPetrelis@aol.com') CC: lxa3@cdc.gov (Ogden, Lydia) Michael -- This email is to update you on the progress with the HIV prevention strategic plan. As you recall, CDC's Advisory Committee for HIV and STD Prevention was concerned that the draft plan was not a unified whole, but was clearly a product of four different workgroups. They felt that the inconsistencies in tone, formatting and specificity of objectives and strategies, as well as overlap between workgroups, detracted from what was in reality a very good plan. Accordingly, we have been working in-house at CDC to revise and reformat and edit the strategic plan. We hope to have the revisions completed shortly and a revised plan for public comment in early September. We anticipate that the public comment period will begin on September 11 and run until October 23. As before, we will be holding public meetings to get input on the draft plan. Currently, the schedule for meetings is as follows: Tues., Sept. 19 Oakland/San Francisco, CA Public Meeting 1:30-3:30 PM Holiday Inn-Bay Bridge 1800 Powell Street Emeryville, CA 94608 510-658-9300 Wed., Sept. 20 Houston, TX Public Meeting 1:30-4:30 PM Red Lion 2525 West Loop South Houston, TX 77027 713-961-3000 Thurs., Sept. 21 Chicago, IL Public Meeting 1:30-4:30 PM Congress Plaza Hotel 520 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605 312-427-3800 Thurs., Sept. 28 New York, NY Public Meeting 1:30-4:30 PM Hotel Pennsylvania 401 7th Avenue New York, NY 10001 212-736-5000 Seating for public meetings is limited by room size (approximately 100 persons) and on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to attend, please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks for your interest in the strategic plan. I look forward to seeing you at one of the public meetings. Lydia Lydia Ogden, MA, MPP Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention 1600 Clifton Road, NE (E07) Atlanta, GA 30333 Phone: 404-639-8031, 8008 Fax: 404-639-8629 Email: lxa3@cdc.gov ======================== Michael Petrelis Welcome to AIDS-STATISTICS www.AIDS-statistics.com 2215-R Market Street, #413 San Francisco, CA 94114