Jesse Milan, Altarum Institute VP and Chairman of the Black AIDS Institute,

       to be Keynote Speaker at Mexico City Business Council on AIDS



    WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 /EMWNews/ -- Jesse Milan, Jr., Vice President of

Altarum Institute and a prominent leader and advocate on HIV/AIDS issues,

will address the 2008 Mexico City Business Council on AIDS conference

Thursday, August 7th in Mexico City. The Mexico City Business Council on

AIDS conference is a satellite meeting of the XVII International AIDS

Conference.



    A person living with HIV for 26 years, Milan has spoken and written

extensively on HIV/AIDS issues. He is currently chairman of the CDC

Business and Labor Responds to AIDS Partners Board and chairman of the Los

Angeles- based Black AIDS Institute, from which he received the "Hero in

the Struggle" award earlier this year. From 2002-2007, he served as

co-chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Health

Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advisory Committee on HIV and

STD Prevention and Treatments.



    Milan joined Altarum Institute in the spring of 2008 and is the

Director of the Institute's Community Health Systems group.



    Altarum Institute ( http://www.altarum.org ) is a nonprofit health systems

research institute that helps clients research and apply health systems

solutions to improve our nation's health. Altarum employs 250 individuals

and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan with additional offices in the

Washington, DC area; Atlanta, Georgia; Portland, Maine; and San Antonio,

Texas.



    View this release online: http://www.altarum.org/index.cfm?ID=291