Founder's Recognition Events

Thursday, June 19, 2008 The War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, Historic Green Room 401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 The Textile Museum 2320 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

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Martin Delaney, Founder

About Martin Delaney

Martin Delaney is one of the principal architects of an enlightened response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and has preserved and improved the quality of life for countless individuals. He is the Founder of Project Inform, one of the nation’s most respected non-profit agencies working in HIV/AIDS. Martin helped to lead Project Inform from its inception in 1985 until January of 2008. He has been a constructive critic of federal, academic, and industry AIDS research efforts, and a key figure in helping to bring effective HIV treatments to market. He is a leader of the movement to accelerate FDA approval of promising drugs and was a key player in the development of today’s widely used Accelerated Approval regulations and Parallel Track system for providing experimental drugs to seriously ill people preceding formal approval by the
FDA. He was one of the founders of the community-based HIV research movement and, through Project Inform, led the way to an unprecedented level of HIV treatment education becoming available to patients and medical providers.

Martin has been a featured voice in the media and at scientific conferences on AIDS-related topics. His writings have appeared in prestigious medical publications including The Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Journal of AIDS, as well as a number of popular magazines. He is the co-author of Strategies for Survival, The Gay Men’s Health Manual for the Age of AIDS and editor of the Project Inform HIV Drug Book. His work and the history of Project Inform have been described in several books, including Acceptable Risks, by Jonathan Kwitney, Against the Odds by Peter Arno and Good Intentions by Bruce Nussbaum.

Over the last 23 years, Martin has spoken before more community, government, and industry groups on AIDS treatment and research issues than any other activist or political figure. He has served on many AIDS-related local and national boards and prominent government advisory groups. He currently leads the Fair Pricing Coalition, which presses industry to assure that HIV medications are accessible and he is the Chair of the Board of the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research, which makes grants to support promising HIV-related research.