Who We Are

Founded in 1991, the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations’ (ICASO) mission is to mobilize and support diverse community organizations to build an effective global response to HIV and AIDS. This is done within a vision of the end to the HIV pandemic through universal access to HIV  prevention, treatment, care, and support within a human rights framework.

ICASO focuses on the inclusion and leadership of communities in the effort to bring about an end to the HIV pandemic. We focus on the fight against HIV while recognizing the importance of the overall strength of communities and the importance of overall health and human rights promotion as a part of the fight. Our approach includes:

  1. Supporting strong advocates and community-based structures for HIV mobilization and engagement;
  2. Promoting evidence-based HIV approaches and strategic use of HIV resources for maximum impact on people’s lives;
  3. Building an HIV effort that contributes to broader health, human rights, and gender equity.