Project Inform
Encyclopedia
Project Inform is a U.S.
advocacy group dedicated to improving the health of and empowering people with HIV, involving them in the process of developing therapies for the disease, and ending the AIDS pandemic
. The organization deliberately focuses its efforts on issues that few other agencies address.
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
of critical drugs and other treatments for AIDS.
PI was founded in 1984 by Martin Delaney
and Joe Brewer.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
advocacy group dedicated to improving the health of and empowering people with HIV, involving them in the process of developing therapies for the disease, and ending the AIDS pandemic
AIDS pandemic
The acquired immune deficiency syndrome pandemic is a widespread disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus .Since AIDS was first recognized in 1981, it has led to the deaths of more than 25 million people, making it one of the most destructive diseases in recorded history.Despite recent...
. The organization deliberately focuses its efforts on issues that few other agencies address.
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
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
of critical drugs and other treatments for AIDS.
PI was founded in 1984 by Martin Delaney
Martin Delaney (activist)
Martin "Marty" Delaney was an advocate for HIV/AIDS treatments. In 1985, he founded Project Inform, an education and public policy advocacy group concerned with HIV and AIDS, and continued to lead the organisation until 2008...
and Joe Brewer.