Twenty years of information,
advocacy and inspiration—2004

Project Inform achievements (1985–2004)     View PDF

Project Inform milestones:

• Played a key leadership role in saving the California state ADAP, averting a crisis that would have left thousands without access to lifesaving medication.
• Played a key and ongoing role in assisting the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in its redesign of the federally-funded domestic and international clinical trials networks.
• Contributed to the development of AIDSVote.com, a domestic HIV/AIDS platform and questionnaire to the Presidential candidates.
• This project offered a tremendous opportunity for grassroots activists to get involved in the electoral process and to encourage candidates to make HIV/AIDS a priority in their campaigns.

Epidemic milestones:

• In January, a CDC analysis of new HIV infections in 29 states that have names-based HIV reporting—not including New York and California—finds that 35% of new HIV infections between 1999 and 2002 resulted from heterosexual sex; of these, 64% were women and 74% were African-American.
• In March, seven of nine federally-funded Ryan White Title I regions in California receive cuts in funding for HIV care and services.
• 15th International AIDS Conference (“Access for All”) takes place in Bangkok, Thailand, the first to be held in Southeast Asia.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces expedited review process by FDA for fixed dose combination and co-packaged products—to be used by U.S. in purchasing medications under President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
• By the end of the year, the availability of HIV rapid testing expands throughout California.