AIDS group opens Oakland office

March 4, 2010

Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) welcomes George Ayala at an open house Monday, March 1 at the Global Forum on MSM HIV, which just opened offices in Oakland. Ayala, a clinical psychologist, is executive officer of the Global Forum, which is a network of civil society groups, AIDS organizations, and advocates working for improved HIV programming for men who have sex with men worldwide. Other guests at the open house included Othman Mellouk, Global Fund co-chair and president of Morocco's Association de Lutte Contre le Sida Maroc; Ben Plumley, CEO of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation; Lance Toma, executive director of Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center; Cynthia Carey-Grant, executive director of Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases; Damon Powell, cultural affairs commissioner for the city of Oakland; and Ron Hypolite of the Alameda County Public Health Department.

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