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Multicultural AIDS Resource Center
MSS 94-19
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
Title: Multicultural AIDS resource center
Creator:
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 94-19
Physical Description:
2 cartons
2.5
Date (inclusive): 1988-1993
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, speeches, manuals, reports, and training files created by the Multicultural AIDS Resource Center.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ .
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Nancy Zinn and Josué Hurtado
- Date Completed:
- October 2007
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manager of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials.
[Identification of item], Multicultural AIDS Resource Center, MSS 94-19, The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management,
Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
GAPA Community HIV Project, MSS 95-02
National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, MSS 94-59
Third World AIDS Advisory Task Force, MSS 94-49
The Multicultural AIDS Resource Center Records were donated to the UCSF Library by David Nashimoto in 1994.
Processed by Nancy Zinn and Josué Hurtado, 1994
The Multicultural AIDS Resource Center (MARC) was a subsidiary project of the Multicultural Training Resource Center (MTRC).
MTRC was created in 1984 by Sala Udin, an experienced community organizer who was interested in helping people of color to
increase skills and knowledge in community organizing. MARC was created to train the statewide contractors that serve people
of color, about multicultural approaches to AIDS education and prevention. Its two main programs were Abraxas, which developed
a multi-cultural HIV Antibody Test educational campaign, and a three year state-funded Technical Assistance Program.
Besides these two primary operations, MARC staff were key players in developing strong advocacy for AIDS services appropriate
to the diverse cultures of people of color in the San Francisco Bay Area. Records selected for retention document each of
these activities.
As other organizations that focused on gay men of color grew and began to secure more service contracts, and reporting requirements
became more demanding, MTRC found itself increasingly under-funded and out of step. Both MARC and the Multicultural Training
Resource Center closed in early 1993.
Scope and Content of Collection
The two main programs documented in this collection are Abraxas and a three year, state-funded Technical Assistance Program.
Under the latter, MARC developed curricula for eight and sixteen hour trainings, which began to take place in 1989. It also
established a library and information resource which included an in-house database and linkage to major public and proprietary
electronic databases, as well as monographs, articles, videos and other materials on AIDS, substance abuse, and multi-culturalism.
Other training resources in this collection include packets on Black Leadership in AIDS (9/87), Black Sexuality & AIDS (1989),
Sexual and Drug Behavior Change in Minority Communities (1989), and a generic training manual on AIDS and Minorities (1989).
Materials in this collection include: correspondence, minutes, speeches, manuals, reports, and training files.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States
AIDS (Disease)--Social Aspects--United States
Minorities--Health and hygiene--United States
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center