amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, is an international nonprofit organization that works to support projects and programs involving and benefiting HIV/AIDS research, prevention, treatment, and education. They also advocate sound AIDS-related public policy. 

The foundation’s history can be traced back to the 1980s, when a group of scientists and researchers, including Mathilde Krim, Ph.D., organized an informal study group with the aim of investigating the condition that have come to be...