Welcome to the website of the NMA’s Diabetes Education Program! This site, funded by a cooperative agreement from the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has multiple purposes. It is intended to provide diabetes information to NMA physicians’ patients and consumers of the general public; to educate those individuals with “pre-diabetes” and diabetes; educate and provide diabetes information for medical professionals, especially those in practice; and provide a tool and repository for information necessary for NMA affiliate leads to successfully manage the local diabetes coalitions in their areas. To view the NMA’s Diabetes Education Program Website please click here
Welcome to the website of the NMA’s Smoking Cessation Program! The NMA will continue to develop a culturally competent, comprehensive smoking cessation campaign and will advocate for complementary messages, using a variety of external media (i.e., film, TV, radio, print, medical journals) and internal media (e.g., the Journal of the National Medical Association, NMA Healthy Living magazine, and the NMA website). To disseminate this campaign throughout the community, it will form alliances with groups experienced in marketing to African Americans that also have expertise in carrying health messages to grass-roots organizations (e.g., the American Legacy Foundation, Priority Populations Initiatives, the National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, and other community-based organizations). To learn more about the NMA’s Smoking Cessation Program click here.
Welcome to the website of the NMA’s HIV/AIDS Program! In keeping with the National Medical Association’s (NMA) mission to eliminate health disparities, the purpose of its HIV Prevention project is to have 2,000 black primary care physicians incorporate HIV testing as part of routine care to all patients and to encourage the same providers to include prevention messages to individuals who are HIV positive.
The project will take place in 6 cities--Baton Rouge, LA, East St. Louis, IL, Jackson, MS, Memphis, TN, Oakland, CA, and Raleigh/Durham, NC. These areas were chosen because they are among cities with the highest prevalence of HIV cases and also because they have an NMA affiliate society nearby. To learn more about the NMA’s HIV/AIDS Program click here.
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