ACRIA
The AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) was founded in December 1991 to provide community based clinical drug trials for people living with AIDS. They also run the HIV Health Literacy Program (HHLP). ACRIA can trace their history back to the founding of the Community Research Initiative by Michael Callen[1] and Joseph Sonnabend.[2]
History
In 1991, a group of physicians, activists, and people with HIV, tired of the slow pace of government-sponsored and academic research, took action. Under the leadership of prominent doctors and researchers, these men and women brought the first-ever activist, community-based approach to the study of new treatments for the disease. Since then, ACRIA’s Robert Mapplethorpe Clinical Trials Program has contributed to the development of a remarkable 20 medicines that have gone on to receive FDA approval.
Today
ACRIA also studies the lives and needs of people with or at risk for HIV through its Behavioral Research Program; offers critical HIV healthcare education to HIV-positive people and their caregivers all around the world through its HIV Health Literacy Program; and provides a variety of consulting services (technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation, curriculum development, and web-based learning among them) to strengthen AIDS and other service organizations across the country, enabling those groups to better serve their own clients. Additionally, through the ACRIA Center on HIV & Aging, the organization is recognized as an international authority on the emerging issue of older adults and HIV.
References
- ^ DAVID W. DUNLAPPublished: December 29, 1993 (1993-12-29). "Michael Callen, Singer and Expert On Coping With AIDS, Dies at 38 - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "AMFAR : Awards of Courage". Amfar.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
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