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AIDS Community Research Initiative of America 230 W. . How You Can Help Mission Statement The AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) (formerly Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA)) is a non-profit community-based AIDS research and treatment education center. Background The AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (formerly Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA)) was incorporated in December 1991 by a group of physicians, activists, and people living with AIDS (PLWAs) who were discouraged by the restraints and red tape debilitating government and academic AIDS research efforts. Under the leadership of the medical community's foremost AIDS practitioners and researchers, the group set out to create an agency that would bring activism to the ever urgent task of studying AIDS-related illness and treatment. |