AIDS United is a national non-profit organization based in

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, that is dedicated to ending the

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epidemic in the United States.

History and mission

AIDS United was born out of a merger between two Washington, DC-based organizations: the National AIDS Fund (NAF), a strategic grantmaking foundation and public charity, and AIDS Action, an advocacy organization for sound policy creation and the dissemination of education regarding the AIDS epidemic. NAF was founded in 1987, with the mission to support community-driven responses to the HIV epidemic around the country that would reach the nation’s most disproportionately affected populations, including gay and bisexual men, communities of color, women, people living in the deep South and people living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Action was developed out of a 1984 coalition among AIDS service organizations across the United States, in response to the federal government’s seeming indifference at that time to the needs of communities affected by

HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...

. Their mission was to cultivate and create policies and programs in response to the HIV epidemic, distribute information, and advocate on behalf of all those living with and affected by HIV. The two organizations merged in 2010 to form AIDS United, under the direction of Mark Ishaug, then president and CEO of the

AIDS Foundation of Chicago AIDS Foundation of Chicago is a locally based, non-profit organization that advocates for HIV/AIDS prevention as well as serves as a general resource for the HIV/AIDS community. Founded in 1985, some of their better-known accomplishments include ...

. The mission of AIDS United is to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States through strategic grantmaking, capacity building, policy/advocacy, technical assistance, and formative research.

Administration

Jesse Milan, Jr., JD is the President and

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of AIDS United.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://aidsunited.org/
Leading National AIDS Organizations Merge to From AIDS United (Press Release)

Preliminary Guide to the AIDS Action Foundation Records, 1984-2006
Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.