To Reduce Suffering...
The Minority AIDS Project (MAP) is the first community-based HIV/AIDS organization established and managed by people of color in the United States. It was founded in 1985 by Bishop Carl Bean and members of the Unity Fellowship Curch.
MAP's service and educational programs are communty-wide and available to all people. However, from the beginning, the primary focus of our services and outreach has been the African-American and Latino communities in Central and South Central Los Angeles. MAP's mission is to reduce suffering and deaths due to HIV infection in the African-American and Latino communities by making HIV/AIDS-related health service and education available and accessible to them. Until the doors opened at Minority AIDS Project, these communities had little or no real access to preventative education and essential health care services.