Our Mission
The mission of AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC) is to support health and quality of life through culturally appropriate programs that are responsive to the changing needs of those infected and affected HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C (HCV). ACRC is dedicated to empowering its clients, communities, and its partners through community-driven programming, education, and consultation.
Our Values
We value providing the highest quality of services: empowering people communities; caring for the spirit as well as the body; doing our work with passion and dedication; delivering cost effective services.
Who We Serve
We serve all ethnic minorities, and the homeless, women, children, injection drug users, recently released prisoners, and people in recovery.
Timeline
- 1989 A group of leading Stanford University physicians and researchers founded ACRC as a community-based agency providing access to new HIV/AIDS drugs available only through clinical trials.
- 1995 With the success of new drug treatments, ACRC began to provide HIV/AIDS direct services by doing street-level outreach, triage, patient advocacy, drug treatment education, and HIV prevention.
- 1998 ACRC initiated Living Now©, an HIV/AIDS peer education and training continuum of services, offering one of the most successful and renowned primary and secondary HIV/AIDS education prevention efforts in California.
- 1999 After discovering that over 80% of ACRC's HIV-positive clients were co-infected with Hepatitis C (HCV), ACRC expanded its mission to address HCV health education and social services and developed the HCV Living Now© program. It remains the only Hepatitis C peer group education program in the nation.
- Today ACRC touches over 5,000 people from underserved populations living with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C (HCV) by offering innovative outreach, education, prevention, case management, food and transportation, and clinical trial services.