Twenty years of information,
advocacy and inspiration—2000

Project Inform achievements (1985–2004)     View PDF

Project Inform milestones:

• Worked in coalition with advocates to fight attempts to mandate HIV testing of pregnant women in the 2000 Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization bill.
• Published Positive? How Are You Feeling?, a brochure developed to help women recognize feelings and signals that may be related to HIV disease.
• Successfully organized and facilitated advocacy training in Anchorage, Alaska. Following the training, participants held a legislative meeting with staff of Senator Ted Stevens, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to discuss HIV/AIDS funding issues and other needs specific to Alaskans, particularly Alaskan Natives.
• Initiated discussions with Gilead Sciences regarding an expanded access program for its experimental therapy tenofovir.

Epidemic milestones:

• Among gay and bisexual men, AIDS diagnoses among African American and Latino men exceed that of whites for the first time.
• Under the slogan, “Break the Silence,” the 13th International Conference on AIDS is held in Durban, South Africa. In some sub-Saharan African countries, over 25% of the entire population has HIV.
• U.S. Congress reauthorizes the Ryan White CARE Act for the second time.
• FDA approves use of lopinavir (Kaletra).