Great Nonprofits

It's long overdue that an organization such as this one has started to represent people who are all too often under served and under represented. Rather than give the state large sums of money, year after year, only to see them mismanage it, resulting in waiting lists, it would be better to allow beneficiaries to self-direct their own care. People living with HIV/AIDS are far more aware of their own needs and arguably would do a better job of obtaining services and support that would allow them to maintain a healthy lifestyle. All too often, the views of the beneficiary are overlooked and this organization has demonstrated, in a short period of time, its ability to put the ADAP recipients first!

This organization has good goals, but sometimes is over zealous in promoting them. They continue to say that people died while on waiting lists when the truth is that the people who died were actually getting their drugs from patient assistance programs, but had unfortunately run out of options for a regimen that would work for them. The organization has implied at times that the ADAPs are not doing their best to serve patients, when the opposite is indeed the truth. The ADAP Directors in this nation are excellent advocates for patients in their states. When advocacy groups want to help the cause, it would be more helpful to work with the ADAP Directors to see how they can improve the services of a state ADAP. It is best to retain credibility and speak only the facts than to over exagggerate and lose a powerful voice

aaa+ is a very important voice in expanding access to care and treatment for HIV positive people in the United States. At a time when the focus has shifted to global AIDS, I have attended some of the critical events that aaa+ has organized, and I have found them very helpful in understanding not only how this problem affects people living with HIV, but especially how our organizations can work together to effect real change. I look forward to events that aaa+ will put on in the future and I hope that their efforts in this field will continue to make waves in the HIV community.

The ADAP ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION (aaa+) is a group of HIV/AIDS ADAP advocates that are sincere and whole heartedly immersed in the HIV health care access as well as the HIV-related disability issues. The fact that some of the board members as well as the CEO are struggling with this disease and its problems on a daily basis gives this organization a personal perspective, a deep seated understanding, and an ever-flowing impetus to be true and staunch advocates for those who are less fortunate. Moreover, the fact that the all volunteer board members come from different walks of life, professions, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and political affiliation, enriches aaa+ multi-dimensional advocacy and makes it more of a true representation of the people living with HIV/AIDS. AAA+ is the honest and unwavering voice for the AIDS/HIV+.

This organization is the ONLY national HIV/AIDS organization fighting to improve the AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). ADAPs provide life-saving medications to people living with HIV/AIDS who have little, or no insurance. Believe it or not, but there have actually been national waiting lists to access this important program due to insufficient federal funding, and in some cases people have actually died waiting for their medications. So while we fight to provide low-cost medications to those suffering from HIV/AIDS in foreign countries (which we should be doing), we're letting Americans die waiting! The ADAP Advocacy Association is simple terms is fighting for those who cannot fight themselves.