Twenty years of information,
advocacy and inspiration—1995

Project Inform achievements (1985–2004)     View PDF

Project Inform milestones:

• Co-created the North American Treatment Action Forum (previously the National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Forum or NATAF). Now sponsored by the National Minority AIDS Council, NATAF's mission is to prolong the lives of individuals living with HIV/AIDS by educating and engaging individuals and inspiring the treatment education and advocacy community. Project Inform continues as an active partner in planning and implementing this conference.
• Collaborated with regional and national partners to defeat a proposal to block grant Medicaid, which would have threatened the healthcare of millions of beneficiaries.

Epidemic milestones:

• First guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with HIV issued by CDC.
• President Clinton establishes the first Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and hosts the first White House Summit on AIDS.
• First National HIV Testing Day created by the National Association of People with AIDS.
• Olympic Gold Medal diver Greg Louganis discloses that he is living with HIV, leading to public debate regarding disclosure of HIV status.
• First protease inhibitor, saquinavir (Invirase), approved in record time by the U.S. FDA, ushering in new era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Lamivudine (3TC/Epivir) also approved.
• U.S. TO DATE TOTAL:  513,486 AIDS cases; 319,849 AIDS deaths