ACRIA

ACRIA envisions a world where all people with HIV receive the treatment and support they need to lead healthy, productive lives and where transmissions of the virus have been eliminated. In 1991, a group of physicians, activists, and people with HIV, tired of the slow pace of government-sponsored and academic research, took action. Under the leadership of prominent doctors and researchers, we brought the first-ever activist, community-based approach to the study of new treatments for the disease. Since then, ACRIA has contributed to the development of a remarkable 20 medicines that have gone on to receive FDA approval. Today, ACRIA studies the lives and needs of people with or at risk of HIV through its Research Programs; offers critical HIV healthcare education to HIV-positive people and their caregivers around the globe through its Training Center; while through the ACRIA Center on HIV & Aging, the organization is recognized as an international authority on the emerging issue of...