Title: Last Chance for Your APHA Policy this Year!

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Section/SPIG: HIV/AIDS

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It's called "APHA Public Hearings" listed in the program for Sunday, Nov.r 7 from 3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. The hearings are intended as an open forum provided for detailed exploration, discussion, and debate of assigned public policy proposals. Since online review of submitted policies for the year is available earlier in the year, these Hearings mainly focus on Late Breakers

[Q: So, what's a "Late Breaker"? – A: Resolutions which relate directly to important, emergent events occurring after the regular process deadline. The cut off date for Late Breakers is Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004 at 6:00 p.m. and should be emailed to <policy@apha.org> or submitted at the Association office in an electronic format. Since late-breaking resolutions cannot benefit from a full public and technical review of the established policy development process, any resolution adopted by the Council under "late-breaking" provisions will be considered valid, but interim, policy -- subject to full review and reaffirmation in the next annual policy development cycle.]

All APHA policy statements are available through a searchable database. They can easily be accessed through APHA's Policy Statement Database on the Web site. Policies are searchable by keyword, subject index, and by the year the policy was instituted. [Please Note: Specific and indirect information related to HIV is widespread throughout the polices and not always easily “found” by the searchable database.


For more information on the Policy Process and Policy Statements, please go to APHA's Web site at <www.apha.org> and click on Legislation, Advocacy & Policy. From there, members can click on "APHA Policy Statements" as well as "Guidelines for 2004 Policy Process," which will be helpful for 2005.