Activist Groups and PWA Coalitions, U.S. and Canada

Updated January 1997

Since 1990 AIDS TREATMENT NEWS has published a list of ACT UP or activist groups, PWA coalitions, and buyers' clubs; this year the buyers' clubs were listed separately (issue #260, December 6, 1996). We called the numbers below and included only those we could verify; some are home telephones, not offices. Within states, the listings are alphabetical by city.

For information about ACT UP affiliates, call the ACT UP Network, 215/731-1844. For information about other PWA organizations, call the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA), 202/898-0414. If you know of other organizations which should be listed in this directory, please call AIDS TREATMENT NEWS at 800/TREAT-1-2, or 415/255-0588.

There are well over ten thousand AIDS organizations in the U.S. alone; only a few can be included in this specialized list. To find out about services and organizations in your area, call the National AIDS Hotline, 800/342-AIDS, 24 hours a day; for the same information in Spanish, call 800/344-SIDA, 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Eastern time, 7 days a week.

ALABAMA
Birmingham Alabama Task Force on AIDS 205/781-6448
Birmingham Birmingham AIDS Outreach 205/322-4197
Huntsville AIDS Action Coalition 205/883-2437
ARIZONA
Phoenix The Arizona Human Rights Fund 602/530-1660
Phoenix Being Alive 602/955-4673
Phoenix Phoenix Body Positive 602/955-4673
Tucson PACT for Life 602/770-1710
CALIFORNIA
Long Beach Being Alive Long Beach 310/434-9022
Los Angeles APLA Grassroots Hotline 213/993-1680
Los Angeles ACT UP/Los Angeles 213/669-7301
Los Angeles Being Alive 213/667-3262
Los Angeles Mothers' Voices 310/397-5812
Los Angeles Woman Alive 213/965-1564
Oakland ACT UP/East Bay 510/568-1680
Oakland Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD) 510/658-6930
Orange County Being Alive Orange County 714/362-5483
Redondo Beach Being Alive South Bay 310/792-0377
San Diego Being Alive San Diego 619/291-1400
San Francisco ACT UP/Golden Gate 415/252-9200
San Francisco AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition 415/248-1330
San Francisco Bay Area Young Positives (BAY+) 415/487-1616
San Francisco Black Coalition on AIDS 415/346-2364
San Francisco Project Inform 800/822-7422
(Project Inform Treatment Action Network, 415/558-8669)
San Francisco Women's AIDS Network 415/621-4160
Santa Barbara ACT UP/Santa Barbara 805/569-3299
West Hollywood Being Alive 310/358-2281
COLORADO
Denver PWA Coalition Colorado 303/329-9379
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington ACT UP/Washington 202/547-6780
Washington AIDS Cure Party 202/547-6780
Washington HIV Community Coalition of Metropolitan
Washington, DC (HCC) 800/558-AIDS, or 202/543-6777
Washington National Assn. of People with AIDS 202/898-0414
FLORIDA
Clearwater AIDS Community Proj. of Tampa Bay 813/449-2437
Fort Lauderdale ACT UP/Fort Lauderdale 954/764-7670
Fort Lauderdale PWA Coalition Broward 954/565-9119
Jacksonville PWA Coalition 904/387-2992
Miami Body Positive 305/576-1111
Miami Mothers' Voices 305/371-4608
Miami PWA Coalition 305/573-6010
Palm Beach PWA Coalition 407/655-3322
GEORGIA
Atlanta ACT UP/Atlanta 404/874-6782
Atlanta AIDS Survival Project 404/874-7926
Atlanta Mothers' Voices 800/342-6705
Atlanta Women's Information Service and Exchange
(WISE) 800/326-3861, or 404/817-3441
Macon The Rainbow Center 800/374-2437
HAWAII
Honolulu Life Foundation 808/521-2437
Honolulu PWA Coalition Hawaii 808/942-7922
Kapaa, Kauai Malama Pono, The HIV Service Agency of Kauai 808/822-0878
ILLINOIS
Champaign Gay Community AIDS Project 217/351-2437
Chicago Chicago Women's AIDS Project 773/271-2242
Chicago Mothers' Voices 800/342-6705
Chicago Test Positive Aware Network 312/404-8726
Peoria Friends of PWAs 309/671-2144
INDIANA
Bloomington Project FIND 812/337-2221
Indianapolis ICAAN 317/920-3190
IOWA
Davenport AIDS Project Quad Cities 319/328-5464
Waterloo Cedar AIDS Support System 319/292-2437
KENTUCKY
Lexington AIDS Volunteers (AVOL) 606/278-6274
Louisville KIPWAC 800/676-5490
LOUISIANA
New Orleans PWA Coalition 504/524-3488
MARYLAND
Baltimore AIDS Action Baltimore 410/837-2437
Baltimore PWA/HIV Coalition 410/625-1677
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston ACT UP/Boston 617/492-2887
Boston Boston Living Center 617/236-1012
Boston Committee of Ten Thousand 800/488-2688
Boston Multi-Cultural AIDS Coalition 617/442-1622
Boston Search for a Cure 617/536-2474
Mashpee Upper Cape PWA Coalition 508/540-0116
Provincetown ACT UP/Provincetown 508/487-3049
Provincetown Provincetown Positive 508/487-3998
MICHIGAN
Detroit Friends Alliance 313/831-4400
Grand Rapids AIDS Resource Center 616/459-9177
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis The Aliveness Project 612/822-7946
Minneapolis WOMAN 612/373-2461
MISSOURI
St. Louis ACT UP Treatment Issues Group 314/918-0820
NEW JERSEY
Audubon AIDS Coalition of Southern NJ 609/573-7900
New Brunswick NJ Women and AIDS Network 908/846-4462
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe Northern New Mexico PWA Coalition 505/820-2540
NEW YORK
Albany ACT UP/Albany 518/861-6337
Long Island PWA Coalition 516/225-5700
New York City ACT UP/New York 212/642-5499
New York City AIDS Treatment and Data Network 800/734-7104, or 212/260-8868
New York City Housing Works, Inc. 212/966-0466
New York City Lesbian AIDS Project 212/337-3532
New York City Mothers' Voices 800/342-6705
New York City National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP) 212/219-0106
New York City New York AIDS Coalition 212/629-3075
New York City PWA Coalition of New York 800/828-3280, or 212/647-1415
New York City Stand Up Harlem 212/926-4541
New York City Treatment Action Group (TAG) 212/260-0300
New York City Treatment and Data Committee of New York 212/929-4952
NORTH CAROLINA
Research Triangle Park ACT UP/Triangle 919/990-1197
OHIO
Columbus Ohio AIDS Coalition 614/444-1683
Cleveland ACT UP/Cleveland 216/556-0438
OKLAHOMA
Bethany Other Options 800/448-2497, or 405/495-2732
OREGON
Milwaukee CCARE 503/653-8738
Portland Advocacy Council of Oregon and Southwest Washington 503/284-6807
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia ACT UP/Philadelphia 215/731-1844
Philadelphia AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania 215/587-9377
Philadelphia Critical Path AIDS Project 215/545-2212
Philadelphia Project TEACH 215/985-4448
Philadelphia We The People 215/545-6868
Philadelphia Women with Immune System Disorders Organizing & Meeting (WISDOM) 215/732-6560
Pittsburgh Cry Out!/ACT UP 412/683-9741
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sioux Falls ACT UP/South Dakota 605/332-3966
TENNESSEE
Memphis Friends for Life HIV Resources 901/272-0855
Nashville Nashville Cares HEART Line 800/845-4266
TEXAS
Austin AIDS Services of Austin 512/451-2273
Austin Texas AIDS Network 512/447-8887
Galveston AIDS Coalition of Coastal Texas 409/763-2437
Houston PWA Coalition 713/522-5428
UTAH
Salt Lake City PWA Coalition Utah 801/484-2205
VERMONT
Brattleboro Vermont PWA Coalition 802/229-5754
WASHINGTON
Seattle Health Information Network 206/784-5655
Seattle People of Color Against AIDS Network 206/322-7061
Seattle Seattle Treatment Education Project 206/329-4857
WEST VIRGINIA
Morgantown Mountain State AIDS Network 304/292-9000
WISCONSIN
Madison AIDS Network 608/252-6540
WYOMING
Casper Wyoming AIDS Project 307/237-7833

CANADA
Halifax PWA Coalition Nova Scotia 902/429-7922
Montreal CPAVIH 514/282-6673
Ottawa Canadian AIDS Society 613/230-3580
Toronto AIDS Action Now! 416/928-2206
Toronto Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange 800/263-1638 (Canada & northern U.S.), or 416/944-1916
Toronto Toronto PWA Foundation 416/506-1400
Vancouver Pacific AIDS Resource Center 604/681-2122
Victoria PWA Society 604/383-7494