The United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), set for September 10-13, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Washington, DC, is an event you cannot afford to miss. For nearly two decades, USCA has sought to increase the strength and diversity of the community-based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through education, training, new partnerships, collaboration and networking. This year, USCA will work to high-light the changes in our movement that have brought us closer than ever to ending the epidemic, and ways that we can move forward as a community to make this dream a reality.

USCA is the largest AIDS-related gathering in the U.S., bringing together over thousands of workers from all fronts of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic—from case managers and physicians, to public health workers and advocates, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH/As) to policy-makers—to build national support networks, exchange the latest information and learn cutting-edge tools to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS. We hope you will be one of them.

This conference brochure includes: the Call for Abstracts, as well as Registration and Scholarship Application forms. The 2015 USCA Planning Committee has issued the Call for Abstracts to solicit proposals from people working in the field of HIV/AIDS interested in convening a seminar, workshop, roundtable or poster presentation at USCA. When preparing submissions, please follow all of the guidelines outlined in this document, and submit required materials on or before March 13, 2015, by 5:00 p.m. (EST). Abstracts may be submitted online at www.2015USCA.org.

The committee will notify everyone accepted as presenters well in advance of the conference dates, and send them information concerning all applicable registration and/or hotel discounts.

For more information about USCA, and/or to submit abstracts, registrations and scholarship applications online, visit http:// www.2015USCA.org. Questions may be referred directly to the Conferences and Meeting Services Division at conferences@nmac.org or (202) 483-NMAC (6622). Keep up with breaking news and receive deadline reminders by:

• Signing up for USCA e-alerts at http://tinyurl.com/USCAalerts
• Following USCA on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NMACcommunity; be sure to mark all USCA-related tweets with the hashtag:

#USCA2015

The journey toward a world without HIV/AIDS requires the skills, experience and passion that each of us brings to this struggle. As the 2015 USCA approaches, I hope we can count on you to join us as we renew our spirit and recommit ourselves to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Yours In the Struggle,

Paul Kawata, Executive Director

National Minority AIDS Council