AIDS Project Los Angeles
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| Founded | 1983 |
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| Founders | Max Drew, Nancy Cole Sawaya, Matt Redman and Erv Munro |
| Focus | "to achieve health care equity and promote well-being for the LGBT and other underserved communities and people living with and affected by HIV." |
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| Origins | Los Angeles |
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Area served
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United States |
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Key people
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Craig E. Thompson, Chief Executive Officer |
| Website | aplahealth.org |
APLA Health is non-profit organization, whose mission is "to achieve health care equity and promote well-being for the LGBT and other underserved communities and people living with and affected by HIV."
APLA Health is one of the largest non-profit HIV service organizations in the United States. Its activities include improving access to care; providing exceptional, cost-effective, and culturally competent care; growing the number of people they serve; and partnering with other organizations to ensure the delivery of comprehensive services to promote health and wellness in the populations they serve.
The organization was founded as AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1983 by Max Drew, Nancy Cole Sawaya, Matt Redman and Erv Munro with the financial support of their community of friends and family. On July 28, 1985, APLA held the world's first AIDS Walk, which brought in $673,000. The Walk is now the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in Southern California. In 2011, APLA opened a second 501(c)(3) organization, APLA Health & Wellness, to provide HIV prevention services, economic development programs and social activities for gay and bisexual men and transgender individuals of color, and began offering medical services in 2013. In 2016, AIDS Project Los Angeles and APLA Health & Wellness began doing business collectively as APLA Health.
Among the services provided by the organization are primary medical, dental and behavioral health care, housing, case management, nutritional health, treatment adherence, and home health. APLA Health operates eight Vance North Necessities of Life Program (NOLP) food pantry locations around Los Angeles and collaborates with five other organizations to provide food pantry services across the United States, effectively running the nation's largest network of food pantries for persons living with HIV/AIDS.
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