Moisés Agosto-Rosario is a longtime treatment advocate and educator for people living with HIV and AIDS. A frequent public speaker and writer in both English and Spanish, Mr. Agosto-Rosario has played a crucial role in ensuring that communities of color have equal access to care, treatment, and lifesaving information and has won numerous awards for his work with the HIV community. He is currently the Director of Treatment for the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in Washington DC. Previously he worked as project manager for the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) with the HIV Collaborative Fund for HIV Treatment Preparedness, a project of the Tides Foundation. In this role, he was responsible for all programs in the Caribbean, Latin America, West/Central Africa and East Africa. Prior to his tenure at ITPC, Moises was the Vice President & Managing Director for Community Access, a Nelson Communications Company and member of the Publicis Healthcare Group.
From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Agosto-Rosario served as Director of Research, Treatment Education and Advocacy for NMAC in Washington DC, where he was responsible for the development, implementation, and management of all treatment education components for NMAC’s numerous educational programs. In addition, Mr. Agosto-Rosario oversaw all advocacy activities related to treatment access, AIDS biomedical research, and founded the National AIDS Treatment Advocates Forum (NATAF), an important international conference organized annually by NMAC from 1994 to 2005. Before joining NMAC, Mr. Agosto-Rosario served as the editor of SIDA Ahora, the Spanish publication of the People with AIDS Coalition of New York and was an active member of ACT UP New York from 1988 to 1992.
Mr. Agosto-Rosario graduated in 1988 from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, with a B.A. in Literature and Education. He currently resides in Birchwood City, Oxon Hill Maryland and has live with HIV since 1986.
