HIV Speaks 2026 Advocate Highlight: Robert Suttle
Exclusive Q&A with Robert Suttle, a recognized HIV racial justice leader with over ten years of standing in the gap for the HIV movement.
Ready for An Impact That Stays With You?
Corey Higgins of Triad Health Project Invites You to Gear up for HIV Speaks 2026
Loud & Clear Advocate Highlight: Shane Lukas
As part of our Loud & Clear event, we interviewed the speakers and facilitators of these critical advocacy events leading up to HIV Speaks 2026. This interview is with A Great Idea owner, public speaker, and bodily autonomy advocate Shane Lukas who speaks about amplifying advocacy. For those who are meeting you for the […]
Loud & Clear Advocate Highlight: Alicia Diggs
As part of our Loud & Clear event, we interviewed the speakers and facilitators of these critical advocacy events leading up to HIV Speaks 2026. This interview is with advocate-author of Standing On My Healing: From Tainted To Chosen, Alicia Diggs, who will be speaking about thriving as a person living with HIV as well […]
Loud & Clear Advocate Highlight: Melissa Ditmore
As part of our Loud & Clear event, we interviewed the speakers and facilitators of these critical advocacy events leading up to HIV Speaks 2026. This interview is with Unbroken Chains author and researcher Melissa Ditmore. She will be hosting the conversation ‘Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs: Using our rights to ensure access to […]
Our Community of Action: Building Power With NCAAN’s Action Team
In 2026, We’re Gonna Keep Building Statewide HIV Advocacy Power. Our Action Team is part of a movement much bigger than our meetings—but those are important, too. We are people living with HIV in North Carolina. We are public health workers. We are advocates and community members who understand that policy decisions shape […]
A Look Into 2026 for North Carolina HIV Advocacy
As we move out of World AIDS Day into 2026, HIV policy advocacy in North Carolina is more urgent than ever. Now is the time for concrete action! Federal funding streams like the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and state decisions around Medicaid or public health funding directly affect whether ASOs and community health clinics […]
World AIDS Day Shirts: A Celebration in Style
Across North Carolina, HIV and AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) showed up and showed out for this year’s World AIDS Day. From bowling in Belmont to visiting the AIDS quilt in Asheville, our communities marked the day in powerful ways. This year, it was an honor to co-create custom World AIDS Day shirts for organizations […]
VIDEO: Ready to Rise: Moving HIV Policy in 2026 Panel
The “Ready to Rise: Moving HIV Policy in 2026” event, hosted by the NC AIDS Action Network (NCAAN), served as a critical post-World AIDS Day Policy Panel featuring North Carolinians leading the way to address the impacts of HIV and end the AIDS epidemic.
We Must Not Let This Administration Dismantle Decades of Progress to End HIV
North Carolina stands to lose over $30 million in CDC funding, risking a surge in transmissions and undermining care for Black residents, who account for nearly half of new diagnoses. This statement from NCAAN outlines the impact and what you can do.