AIDS Action is an organization dedicated to national advocacy for HIV/AIDS patients and the organizations that serve them. Its policy issues, which are all listed on its Web site, include: access to treatment and care for all people living with HIV/AIDS, reducing the occurrence of new infections, providing HIV treatment and care throughout the world, and protecting the privacy of people living with HIV/AIDS. Its primary goal is to develop a comprehensive national AIDS strategy.

The AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) is an organization devoted to providing free or low-cost legal services to people with HIV or AIDS in the San Francisco Bay area. ALRP assists with problems related to insurance, employment, family law, housing, benefits, and other issues.

The mission of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition is to advocate for AIDS research and the provision of AIDS vaccines to patients throughout the world.

AVERT is a U.K.-based international charity for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Its Community Programme supports and builds partnerships with local organizations to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, improve treatment, and provide support and care in southern Africa. AVERT’s Information and Advocacy Service campaigns for improved responses on issues, such as preventing children being born with HIV. AVERT’s site includes basic information about the disease, as well as quizzes, pictures, videos, and specialized pages for teens and other demographic groups.

The mission of the GAA is to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS around the world and to mitigate its impacts on poor countries. GAA combines policy analysis and advocacy, media outreach, grassroots organizing, and coalition building in order to influence AIDS policy debate and accelerate global AIDS response. Its goals are to achieve universal access to basic education, prevention, treatment, and care, especially for children and women.

LIFEbeat is a charitable organization started by the music industry to fight the spread of HIV and provide support to the AIDS community. Although LIFEbeat primarily focuses on HIV prevention – including its unique focus on music as the medium through which it reaches out to youths – it also partners with AIDS service organizations nationwide. Every week LIFEbeat’s Hearts and Voices program provides live music to thousands of people living with AIDS at facilities throughout New York City.

The National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) is a non-profit organization that provides a public voice for people living with HIV/AIDS. Its primary goal is to ensure that people with AIDS are represented when policies and decisions are being made. To achieve this goal, NAPWA dedicates itself to providing information about HIV/AIDS, telling the stories of HIV/AIDS survivors, and promoting advocacy for HIV/AIDS patients.

Positively Orphaned provides resources about adoption and care of HIV-positive children. The site features children around the world who are waiting to be adopted, as well as links to articles, videos, adoption foundations and agencies, funding assistance, and other information. It also links to over 60 blogs from families that have adopted HIV-positive children and are willing to share their experiences. Positively Orphaned is a personal project, not a foundation or non-profit, and does not solicit or accept donations.

The mission of The Positive Project is to provide an outlet for individuals infected/affected by HIV/AIDS to share their experiences in order to raise awareness, reduce stigma, promote prevention, encourage testing, and enhance care and quality of life. The Positive Project conducts personal face to face structured interviews with individuals who are infected/affected with HIV/AIDS. The videos are then edited and entered into an archive/database on the project’s website.

UNAIDS is the joint United Nations program on HIV/AIDS that collaborates with countries to provide treatment and HIV-prevention education. The program also creates and plans to “Unite the world against AIDS.”