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Finding Aid to the Multicultural AIDS Resource Center, 1988-1993
MSS 94-19
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Collection Title: Multicultural AIDS resource center
Date (inclusive): 1988-1993
Collection Number: MSS 94-19
Creators :
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center
Extent:
Number of containers: 2 cartons
Linear feet: 2
Repository: The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management,
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
Phone: (415) 476-8112
Fax: (415) 476-4653
Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/contactform.html
URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, speeches, manuals, reports, and training files created by the
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the
library's online catalog:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ .
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 following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public
access catalog.
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States
Minorities--Health and hygiene--United States
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center
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.