NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND

Organizational excellence: cba: nastad has a cooperative agreement with cdc's division of hiv prevention (dhp) to provide technical assistance to health departments and cdc-directly funded community-based organizations (cbos) on integrated hiv prevention strategies. National hiv and hepatitis technical assistance meeting: nastad convenes a technical assistance meeting each year for hiv prevention, care including adap coordinators, hepatitis, and drug user health staff. It is supported through corporate contributions specifically for this purpose.annual meeting: nastad convenes an annual meeting of the general membership each spring, supported by the membership and corporate donors. This program includes all activities in support of the annual meeting that are not directly supported by other programs.

Health equity: nastad receives funding from non-federal sources to support its minority leadership program (mlp) as well as to develop resources such as a health equity toolkit and health equity assessment for health departments.

Policy and legislative affairs: nastad's policy and legislative affairs program translates state concerns regarding hiv/aids and hepatitis care, treatment, and prevention programs into sound federal policy. Staff members develop strategies to increase and affect the direction of funding for state public health programs related to access to prevention and care programs for persons at risk for and infected with hiv and hepatitis. Nastad also plays a key role in shaping hiv and hepatitis policy through its leadership in numerous federal coalitions, including the federal aids policy partnership including its subgroups of the healthcare access work group, ryan white work group, prevention action committee and the aids budget and appropriations committee; hepatitis appropriations partnership; and the national viral hepatitis roundtable. This program is supported by both the membership and corporate donors. This policy work includes a specific focus on affordable care act (aca) implementation policies working primarily through coalitions listed above as well as research activities related to the aca.