AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod

AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod: serving Cape Cod & the Islands The AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod covers over 500 square miles and serves over 100,000 people a year through prevention & education, counseling & testing, needle exchange and direct service to individuals and families infected and affected by AIDS. In 1984—three years into the U.S. HIV epidemic—elected officials on Capitol Hill were inactive and silent as the epidemic’s impact grew from affecting gay men in New York and San Francisco to affecting every population and community in the United States. In response to the federal government’s seeming indifference, groups of volunteers organized at the local level to educate their communities on HIV prevention, to care for those living with the virus, and to grieve for those lost to AIDS-defining conditions. At the forefront was Provincetown, where hundreds of people living with AIDS arrived seeking acceptance and compassionate care. The AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod (previously the Provincetown AIDS Support Group) was one of the country’s first response teams. Our doors opened in 1983.

AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, Civic Organizations, Provincetown