ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HIV/AIDS TIMELINE
1986 - 1999
1986
- Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans receives the first government funding ($7,500) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for HIV prevention for Asians and Pacific Islanders (St. Paul, MN)
1987
- San Francisco Department of Public Health begins reporting AIDS surveillance data by Asian and Pacific Islander ethnicities/national origins
- Asian American Recovery Services begins Asian AIDS Project (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian/Pacific Lesbians and Gays begins AIDS Intervention Team (Los Angeles, CA)
- Asian Pacific Planning Council (APPCON) begins HIVAIDS Committee (Los Angeles, CA)
- Japanese Community Youth Council begins Japanese American AIDS Project (San Francisco, CA)
1988
- Gay Asian Pacific Alliance begins HIV/AIDS committee (San Francisco, CA)
- Filipino Task Force on AIDS begins (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian Pacific Islander Caucus at CDC National Conference on HIV Infection and AIDS Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Washington, D.C.)
- Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) receives five-year CDC Cooperative Agreement as a National Minority Organization (NMO); AAPCHO implements national and regional trainings, develops an educational video in ten Asian and Pacific Islander languages and conducts Asian radio, television and newspaper public awareness campaigns
- CDC begins reporting AIDS surveillance data for Asians/Pacific Islanders and American Indians/Alaskan Natives in separate racial/ethnic categories instead of "Other" in AIDS Weekly Surveillance Report
- Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) receives three-year DHHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) Cooperative Agreement to conduct HIV education through local chapters and at its national conventions (Washington, D.C.)
- East Bay Asian AIDS Coordinating Committee begins (Oakland, CA)
- Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) begins HIV+ support group (San Francisco, CA)
- U.S. Surgeon General issues "Understanding AIDS" to U.S. households, available in Asian and Pacific Islander languages (to date, only HIV prevention materials ever translated by U.S. government in Asian and Pacific Islander languages)
- Indochinese Community Center begins HIV prevention program targeting Southeast Asians (Washington, D.C.)
- Asian AIDS Task Force reorganizes as Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition (A/PAC) (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, Asian Youth Center. Chinatown Service Center, Indochinese Youth Center, Korean Health Education, Information and Research Center, Korean Community Youth Center, Search to Involve Pilipino Americans, To Help Everyone Clinic Asian Health Project and Koryo Health Clinic begin Asian Pacific AIDS Education Project (Los Angeles, CA)
1989
- Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP) begins (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus at DHHS OMH National Conference on HIV Infection and AIDS Among Racial and Ethnic Populations (Washington, D.C.); Patrick Fujimura-Mitchell is first Asian/Pacific Islander living with HIV to speak at a national AIDS conference
- Paul Akio Kawata becomes Executive Director of National Minority AIDS Council (Washington, D.C.)
- Asians and Pacific Islanders Concerned about AIDS begins (New York, NY)
- Asian Pacific AIDS Council (APAC) begins (Seattle, WA)
- Guam Governor issues executive order establishing Guam AIDS Advisory Committee (Guam)
- Sandra Gin Yep produces documentary on Asians and Pacific Islanders and AIDS, "Perceptions: Conspiracy of Silence"; later nominated for an Emmy Award (Sacramento, CA)
1990
- National campaign for compassionate release of an API individual living with AIDS incarcerated in Washington
- San Francisco Department of Public Health issues report of AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors in Filipino, Chinese and Japanese communities in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian American AIDS Foundation (AAAF) begins (Chicago, IL)
- CDC conducts HIV Community Discussion Session with Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (San Francisco, CA)
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya and J Craig Fong appointed to the Community Constituency Group of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)(Washington, D.C.)
- Asian AIDS Project receives three-year CDC Cooperative Agreement for HIV prevention (San Francisco, CA)
- San Francisco AIDS Foundation begins Tagalog Hotline (San Francisco, CA)
- New York state and New York City begin reporting Asian and Pacific Islander AIDS surveillance data in a separate racial/ethnic category instead of "Other"
1991
- San Francisco Department of Public Health issues first estimate of HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander men (28.6%) and other behavior risk populations in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health issues report of AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors in Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian communities in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health issues report of AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors in San Francisco’s Filipino, American Indian and Latino gay and bisexual communities (San Francisco, CA)
- National Commission on AIDS Hearing on HIV/AIDS in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities (San Francisco, CA): 26 individuals testify; 50 community-based organizations submit recommendations to the Commission
- Asian AIDS Project receive three-year Cooperative Agreements from the DHHS OMH for community health coalitions targeting minority populations
- Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) begins with fiscal sponsorship of Family Health Project (New York, NY)
- "Taking Charge: People of Color in Solidarity Against the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," DHHS OMH Regions IX and X Conference (Seattle, WA)
- "A Campaign for Fairness! A Call to Action!" calls for increased funding for HIV prevention and services for gay and bisexual men of color, including establishing specific initiatives funding national and local gay men of color organizations, evaluation of prevention programs for gay and bisexual men of color, and the restoration of funding to the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention
- Korean Community Services Center receives grant from state of Georgia to begin HIV prevention program
- Arrow formed in Guam (Guam)
1992
- Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) receives first grant from New York City Department of Health for HIV prevention targeting API women, youth and MSM
- "HIV/STD Prevention Island Style: A Workshop For and With Pacific Island Communities" (Camp Mokule’ia, HI)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) receives first Ryan White CARE Act grant for services for Asians and Pacific Islanders living with HIV (New York, NY)
- Chinese American Planning Council receives first grant from New York State Department of Health for HIV prevention (New York, NY)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Institute at National Skills Building Conference (Atlanta, GA)
- Delegation of Asians and Pacific Islanders meet with CDC Associate Director for HIV/AIDS James Curran on Asian and Pacific Islander HIV issues (Atlanta, GA)
- Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition (A/PAC) issues Asian and Pacific Islander AIDS Case Surveillance: Recommendations for Future Policy Directions (San Francisco, CA)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health, in collaboration with Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition, American Indian AIDS Institute, Black Coalition on AIDS and Latino Coalition on AIDS/SIDA, issues People of Color and HIV/AIDS: Planning for Treatment and Services in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
- Arrow begins publishing Arrow Archer newsletter (Guam)
- National Commission on AIDS issues The Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Communities of Color
- Asian and Pacific Islander Partnership for Health (APIPH) begins (Washington, D.C.)
- Data collection for University of California San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP) study of gay and bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander men begins
- Asian AIDS Project (San Francisco, CA, Center for Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement (San Francisco, CA), Filipino Task Force on AIDS (San Francisco, CA), Asian American Communities Against AIDS (San Francisco, CA), Asian Health Services (Oakland, CA), Asian Americans for Community Involvement (San Jose, CA) and Kalihi-Palama Immigrant Center (Honolulu, HI) receive funding through CDC Cooperative Agreements to conduct HIV prevention in Asian and Pacific Islander communities
1993
- Health for Asian Pacific Islanders (HAPI) begins in San Diego (San Diego, CA)
- National Minority AIDS Council’s "Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Leadership Conference" with David Ho, M.D., Aaron Diamond Institute as keynote speaker (Los Angeles, CA)
- "Today’s Decisions to Protect Future Generations," HIV Prevention Strategies in the Pacific: A Pacific HIV Prevention Workshop, (Palikir, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) receives five-year CDC Cooperative Agreement as a National/Regional Minority Organization (NRMO) to provide technical assistance and training on HIV prevention to community-based organizations and health departments (CDC Program Announcement 305); APIAHF subcontracts with seven partner community-based organizations: Asian AIDS Project (San Francisco, CA), Asian Health Services (Oakland, CA), Asian Pacific AIDS Council (Seattle, WA), Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team and Search to Involve Pilipino Americans(Los Angeles, CA) and Indochinese Community Center (Washington, D.C.)
- Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP) receives subcontract from NRMO National Task Force on AIDS Prevention to provide technical assistance and training on organizational development and HIV prevention to gay Asian and Pacific Islander individuals and organizations (CDC Program Announcement 305)
- Governor’s Pacific Health Promotion and Development Center issues HIV in the U.S.-Associated Pacific Islander Communities (Honolulu, HI)
- Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition (A/PAC) issues U.S. National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Agenda (San Francisco, CA)
- United States Conference of Mayors and United States Conference of Local Health Officers issues Assessing the HIV-Prevention Needs of Gay and Bisexual Men of Color (Washington, D.C.)
- Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Leadership Network (HALN) begins (New York, NY)
- Coral Life Foundation founded (Guam)
- Papa Ola Lokahi receives subcontract from National Native American AIDS Prevention Center’s Special Programs of National Significance (SPNS) Cooperative Agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for evaluation of case management services for Native Hawaiians (Honolulu, HI)
- Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project (MAAPP) begins (Boston, MA)
1994
- HRSA issues HIV/AIDS Work Group on Health Access Issues for Asian and Pacific Islanders (Rockville, MD)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Community AIDS Project incorporates as tax-exempt, non-profit organization (San Diego, CA)
- "Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges," OMH National Congress on the State of HIV/AIDS in Racial and Ethnic Communities (Washington, D.C.)
1995
- Asian American AIDS Foundation issues Multi-lingual/Multi-cultural HIV/AIDS Booklet for Asian/Pacific Islanders of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- MMWR on men who have sex with men reports that proportion of increase in reported AIDS cases among Asian and Pacific Islander MSM increased 55% from mid-1989 to mid-1994 (Atlanta, GA) MMWR 1995:401
- AIDS Services in Asian Communities begins (Philadelphia, PA)
- Asian AIDS Project issues Transgender Outlook (San Francisco, CA)
- Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP) changes its name to Living Well Project: Asian and Pacific Islander AIDS Services (San Francisco, CA)
- Steve Lew appointed to President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (Washington, D.C.)
- Living Well Project issues Visibility Campaign on Sexual and Gender Diversity and HIV Awareness in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) sponsors "Sharing Resources, Building Partnerships," East Coast Regional Conference for HIV/AIDS Service Providers Working in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities, (New York, NY)
- Pacific Health Dialog: Journal of Community Health and Clinical Medicince for the Pacific issues volume on AIDS, STD and Sexuality in the Pacific (vol. 2. no.2)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Institute at National Skills Building Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
- United States Conference of Mayors funds a statewide visibility campaign about Asian and Pacific Islander gay and bisexual men in Hawai‘i through the Life Foundation (Honolulu, HI)
1996
- United Nations Development Program issues Time to Act: The Pacific Response to HIV and AIDS (Suva, Fiji)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) convenes national working group to develop cultural competency standard and training for Asian and Pacific Islander HIV prevention programs (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) convenes national panels to review Tagalog, Chinese and Vietnamese language HIV prevention materials and develop Tagalog, Chinese and Vietnamese language glossaries of common HIV prevention vocabulary (San Francisco, CA)
- HRSA issues Policy Recommendations on HIV/AIDS Services and Care for Asian and Pacific Islanders (Rockville, MD)
- Southern California Pilipino Task Force on AIDS begins (Los Angeles, CA)
- Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition (A/PAC) issues revised and updated U.S. National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Policy Agenda (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) sponsors "Sharing Resources, Building Partnerships," West Coast Regional Conference for HIV/AIDS Service Providers Working in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities (Seattle, WA)
- Ke Ola Mamo issues Ho’akahele: An HIV Prevention Curriculum for Native Hawaiians (Honolulu, HI)
- Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition (A/PAC) ceases operations (San Francisco, CA)
- DHHS OMH Minority HIV Institute receives 160 recommendations from 34 Asian and Pacific Islander organizations (Washington, D.C.)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Institute at National Skills Building Conference (Washington, D.C.)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) receives five-year Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Cooperative Agreement from HRSA (New York, NY)
1997
- MMWR reports first overall decline in reported AIDS cases from 1995 to 1996; however, reported AIDS cases for Asians and Pacific Islanders increase from 558 in 1995 to 561 in 1996
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) and Living Well Project sponsor "National Summit for Technology Transfer of HIV Prevention Interventions for Asian and Pacific Islander Men Who Have Sex With Men" (Sonoma, CA)
- South Pacific Commission issues Regional Strategy for the Prevention of STD/AIDS in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (Noumea, New Caledonia)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) convenes national panels to review Japanese, Korean and Cambodian language HIV prevention materials and develop Japanese, Korean and Cambodian language glossaries of common HIV prevention vocabulary (San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA)
- Asian AIDS Project and Living Well Project complete merger to form Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center: Community HIV/AIDS Services (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) opens a second office site in Queens, New York
- Arrow ceases operations (Guam)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) sponsors "Voices from the Community" Conference: keynote speakers include Steve Lew from the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center and Al and Jane Nakatani (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) is one of seven NRMOs to receive supplemental funding from the CDC to conduct national assessment of technical assistance and training needs of community-based organizations, health departments and HIV prevention community planning groups (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Institute at United States Conference on AIDS (Miami, FL)
- Ke Ola Mamo (Honolulu, HI), Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center (San Francisco, CA), Asian Health Services (Oakland, CA), Asian and Pacific Islander Community AIDS Project and Union of Pan Asian Communities (San Diego, CA), AIDS Services in Asian Communities, Intercultural Family Services, Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition (Philadelphia, PA), Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project (Boston, MA) and Chinese American Planning Council and Chinatown Health Clinic (New York, NY) receive Cooperative Agreements (or subcontracts) from CDC for HIV prevention (CDC Program Announcement 704)
- Ke Ola Mamo issues Pupukahi Na Mamo: Bringing Together the Diversity of People, a Human Sexual Diversity Component of Ho’akahele: An HIV Prevention Curriculum for Native Hawaiians (Honolulu, HI)
- Palao’an Plus support group for HIV+ women founded (Guam)
1998
- DHHS OMH HIV Minority Action Plan steering committee meets with CDC, HRSA, SAMSA, NIH, FDA to draft action plans on responding to HIV in communities of color (Washington, D.C.)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) convenes national panels to review Thai, Hmong and Lao language HIV prevention materials and develop Thai, Hmong and Lao language glossaries of common HIV prevention vocabulary (San Francisco, CA and Philadelphia, PA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center conducts focus groups of Asian and Pacific Islander MSM program staff for APIAHF’s national needs assessment (Philadelphia, PA; Kauai, HI; Honolulu, HI; San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA)
- Special Supplement of AIDS Education and Prevention published on Asian and Pacific Islander Men Who Have Sex With Men
- San Francisco International Summit on Filipinos and HIV/AIDS (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) convenes national panel to review Samoan language HIV prevention materials and develop Samoan language glossary of common HIV prevention vocabulary (Honolulu, HI)
- AIDS Services in Asian Communities and Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition (Philadelphia, PA), Asians and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health (Long Beach, CA), Korean Youth Community Center (Los Angeles, CA), Life Foundation (Honolulu, HI) and West Hawaii AIDS Foundation (HI) conduct focus groups among API youth for APIAHF’s national needs assessment
- CDC sponsors Technical Assistance and Training Workshop for Pacific Jurisdictions, conducted by APIAHF, Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center and National Minority AIDS Council (Guam)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) conducts National Asian and Pacific Islander Summit on HIV/AIDS (San Diego, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center and Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) co-sponsor "Strengthening HIV Prevention Practice and Research Among Asians and Pacific Islanders at Risk" funded through CDC Program Announcement 802 (San Diego, CA)
- Asian and Pacific Islander Institute at United States Conference on AIDS (Dallas, TX); special guest is Marina Mahathir, Malaysian AIDS Council
- Asian American AIDS Services ceases operations (Chicago, IL)
- Development of the Asian & Pacific Islander Women's HIV National Network (APIWHANN), with members from serveral states and the Pacific Jurisdictions.
1999
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) convenes national panel to review Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu language HIV prevention materials and develop Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu language glossaries of common HIV prevention vocabulary (New York, NY)
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) pilots first HIV prevention materials development panel in Thai (Los Angeles, CA)
- East Coast A&PI AIDS Network forms in September at the Second East Coast Conference organized by Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS Inc. (APICHA).
- Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (New York, NY), Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project (Boston, MA), AIDS Services in Asian Communities (Philadelphia, PA), Asian and Pacific Islander Partnership for Health (Washington, D.C.), International Community Health Services (Seattle, WA), Asian Health Services (Oakland, CA), Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (los Angeles, CA), Life Foundation (Honolulu, HI), Asian & Pacific Islander Women's HIV National Network, and Coral Life Foundation (Guam) conduct focus groups on HIV prevention needs among API women
- CDC and Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) issue Asians and Pacific Islanders and HIV Prevention: Technical Assistance and Training Needs
- Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center (San Francisco, CA), Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (Los Angeles, CA), Asian and Pacific Islander Partnership for Health (Washington, D.C.) and Coral Life Foundation (Guam) receive CDC 99091 funds
- Asian and Pacific Islander Institute at United States Conference on AIDS (Denver, CO)
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