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Project Inform
Formation1984
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Interim Executive Director
David Evans
Website

Project Inform is an American advocacy group dedicated to improving the health of and empowering people with HIV and hepatitis C, involving them in the process of developing therapies for the disease, and ending the AIDS pandemic. The organization deliberately focuses its efforts on issues that few other agencies address. Main areas of focus include drug development, bio-medical prevention, education and health care access. PI was founded in 1984 by Martin Delaney and Joe Brewer.[1]

In the years since its founding the work of Project Inform helped to found the community-based HIV research movement, helped to proliferate HIV treatment education and make it available to patients and care providers, and lead a national movement to accelerate approval by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration of critical drugs and other treatments for AIDS.[2][3][4]

Project Inform has been criticized for accepting pharmaceutical company funding and pushing policies that benefit the industry, such as "hit hard hit early" treatments with ARVs and treatment of asymptomatic HIV-positives, both of which increase drug sales but are debated in the medical community.[5]

References

  1. ^ Kahn, Arthur D. (2005), AIDS, the Winter War: A Testing of America, Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, p. 14, ISBN 978-0-595-36637-8
  2. ^ Sawyer, Eric (January 27, 2009). "In Memory of Martin Delaney: The Founder of Project Inform". UNAIDS. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
  3. ^ Roehr, Bob (January 27, 2009). "Tribute: HIV Treatment Activist Martin Delaney". Medscape. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
  4. ^ Whiting, Sam (January 25, 2009), "Martin Delaney, HIV patient advocate, dies", San Francisco Chronicle
  5. ^ Lauritsen, John (1990). Poison by Prescription. New YOrk: Asklepios. pp. 26, 65, 87. ISBN 0-943742-06-4.

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