Twenty years of information,
advocacy and inspiration—1997

Project Inform achievements (1985–2004)     View PDF

Project Inform milestones:

• Launched Project Wise, a program focusing specifically on the needs of women living with HIV disease; assumed publication of Wise Words, an informational newsletter geared toward women’s issues formerly published by the Women’s Information Service and Exchange in Atlanta.
• Project Inform staff member appointed to serve on a new national panel to create a formal set of Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Therapy for the Treatment of HIV Disease.
• Published the first edition of the HIV Drug Book, a comprehensive and detailed description of all the drugs used in the treatment of HIV disease, along with strategies for their most effective use.
• Published seminal community education materials on drug interactions and drug resistance.

Epidemic milestones:

• AIDS-related deaths in the U.S. decline by more than 40 percent compared to the prior year, largely due to HAART.
• President Clinton calls for an AIDS vaccine to be developed within 10 years.
• California records its 100,000th case of AIDS.
• Congress enacts FDA Modernization Act of 1997, codifying accelerated approval process, and allowing dissemination of information about off-label uses of drugs.
• FDA approves use of nelfinavir (Viracept) and delavirdine (Rescriptor).