Project Inform
non-profit organization in the USA
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.
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.
PI was founded in 1984 by Martin Delaney and Joe Brewer. Linda Grinberg served on the board of Project Inform before her death in 2002, and received the group's Activism Award in 1996.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7249163. VIAF identifies the subject as 158046521. The Library of Congress control number is n89230527. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2002 and 1996.
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