Positive Thoughts – Strong & Healthy: NMAC offers support and engagement opportunities to advocates living with HIV who are 50 and over

Moisés Agosto-Rosario is the treatment director of NMAC (National Minority AIDS Council). He oversees programs that boost HIV treatment and biomedical prevention efforts at community-based organizations. He has held this role since 2011, when he rejoined NMAC after leaving over a decade before. In the 1990s, he was director of treatment education and advocacy at NMAC and editor of SIDA Ahora (AIDS Now), a Spanish-language magazine from the People With AIDS Coalition of New York.
Before his current role, Agosto-Rosario oversaw grant making for the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, a project of the Tides Center. Previously, he managed educational and marketing programs at Publicis Healthcare Communications Group. In addition to his more than three decades as a senior-level adviser on health care and HIV, Agosto-Rosario is a long-term survivor. He tested HIV positive in 1986.
As part of his current role, he oversees the NMAC HIV 50+ Strong & Healthy program. Nine of the 50+ scholars are on the cover of this issue, which showcases our annual POZ 100. This year’s list celebrates advocates living with HIV who are 50 and over. Agosto-Rosario is also on this cover. He first appeared on the cover of POZ in 1997.
GayCalgary: What does NMAC’s treatment division do?
Moisés Agosto-Rosario: We work on both policy and programming...