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Attitudes surrounding HIV/AIDS in Milwaukee have varied over the years and throughout different activist groups. UWM’s Archives contain a lot of material regarding information on the different AIDS activist groups and resources throughout Milwaukee’s history including, Bobby Positive booklets written by a man with AIDS giving personal tips on how to live with AIDS, who later died from the disease in 1997, and different Strategic Plans from the AIDS Resource center of Wisconsin, a HIV health care center centered around providing quality medical, dental, mental health, and social services for all people with HIV. Both the Bobby Positive booklet and the ARCW Strategic plan are ways Wisconsin planned to help prevent and eliminate HIV/AIDS …show more content…

To the right are photos of the table of contents containing the title of each tip he gives, in the booklet he goes into depth on each of them. In the early 1980s, with the discovery of a new infection primarily targeting the gay community, the BESTD Clinic in Milwaukee formed a special project called MAP or Milwaukee AIDS Project to address the crisis. The disease became more of a threat and the community needed more support. A new task force was created by combining the MAP directors, BESTD Clinic President and a few others to form the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin. Over time the organization continued to grow and has become Wisconsin’s largest and fastest growing HIV health care system. “Through its integrated medical, dental and mental health clinics along with pharmacy and dedicated social services that include, food pantries, legal programs and social work case management, more than 3,300 HIV patients in Wisconsin gain the health care and social services they need for long term survival with HIV disease.” (ARCW) Some of the material I found in the archives about the ARCW was their 2007-2011 Strategic Plan. It is an outline of how they plan to achieve their vision which is a “world without AIDS and to ensure that everyone with HIV disease will live a long and healthy life”. Within the plan there is six goals and under each goal there are

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