Twenty years of information,
advocacy and inspiration—2003

Project Inform achievements (1985–2004)     View PDF

Project Inform milestones:

• Provided leadership in establishing the Medicaid Defense Group (now called the HIV Medicaid/Medicare Working Group). This national coalition played a significant role in helping to defeat the Bush Administration’s harmful Medicaid ‘reform’ proposal and in securing a $10 million increase for the federal match for state Medicaid spending. This group was singled out by national health advocates and Congressional staff for its leadership role in 2003 Medicaid advocacy.
• With our national and regional partners, planned and implemented the first national meeting on the cost of HIV-related drugs to public health programs.
• Helped shape and provide important input into a San Francisco-based and multi-center National Study of Organ Transplantation in people living with HIV.
• Through our participation in the Fair Pricing Coalition, provided support for the ADAP Directors’ negotiations with pharmaceutical companies that resulted in $50 million in fiscal relief to ADAP programs nationwide.

Epidemic milestones:

• The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation secures price reductions for HIV/AIDS drugs from generic manufacturers, to benefit developing nations.
• VaxGen reported that its vaccine, AIDSVax, was ineffective overall in a trial of 5,400 participants.
• FDA approves use of enfuvirtide (T20/Fuzeon), atazanavir (Reyataz), and emtricitabine (FTC/Emtriva).