Twenty years of information,
advocacy and inspiration—1993

Project Inform achievements (1985–2004)     View PDF

Project Inform milestones:

• Co-founded the first AIDSWatch, the only national lobby days focused on appropriate funding for all HIV/AIDS programs.
• Led a call for continued hope within the HIV affected community to counter a wave of despair set off by disappointing findings about the effectiveness of treatment.
• Successfully lobbied pharmaceutical companies and federal officials to continue to develop protease inhibitors when they were close to abandoning the field.

Epidemic milestones:

• Congress requires government research agencies to expand involvement of women and minorities in all research.
• 9th International AIDS Conference is held in Berlin, Germany.
• CDC expands case definition of AIDS to reflect fuller spectrum of the disease, including adding a condition specific to women and those more prevalent among injection drug users.
• “Angels in America”, Tony Kushner’s play about AIDS, wins the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize.
• First annual “AIDSWatch” - hundreds of community members from across the U.S. converge in Washington, DC to lobby Congress for increased AIDS funding.
• World class ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev dies of AIDS.