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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power  

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  • ACT UP was the first organized effort to bring attention to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The organization has dozens of chapters in the United States and around the world whose purpose is to find a cure to AIDS, while at the same time providing accurate information, help, and awareness about the disease by means of education and radical, nonviolent protest. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; ACT UP]

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