Project Inform is an American
advocacy group dedicated to improving the health of and empowering
people with HIV
HIV-positive people, seropositive people or people who live with HIV are people who have the human immunodeficiency virus HIV, the agent of the currently incurable disease AIDS.
According to estimates by WHO and UNAIDS, 34.2 million people were ...
and hepatitis C, involving them in the process of developing therapies for the disease, and ending the
AIDS pandemic
The global epidemic of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) began in 1981, and is an ongoing worldwide public health issue. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2021, HIV ...
. The organization deliberately focuses its efforts on issues that few other agencies address. Main areas of focus include drug development, bio-medical prevention, education and health care access.
In the years since its founding the work of Project Inform helped to found the community-based HIV research movement, helped to proliferate HIV treatment education and make it available to patients and care providers, and lead a national movement to accelerate approval by the
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food ...
of critical drugs and other treatments for AIDS.
PI was founded in 1984 by
Martin Delaney and Joe Brewer.
Linda Grinberg served on the board of Project Inform before her death in 2002, and received the group's Activism Award in 1996.
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