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Our Mission

Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area.

We accomplish this through direct legal representation by one of our Staff attorneys, by careful placement of clients with one of our 285 volunteer Panel attorneys, and by connecting our clients to non-legal service providers to secure other vital resources.

Every year, we help thousands of clients stay in their homes, gain access to healthcare, become legal citizens, improve their finances, and connect to other community services. By addressing their legal problems, ALRP seeks to improve our clients’ health and well-being.

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Our clients

Our clients often come to us during some of the toughest moments of their lives. They are facing homelessness, fighting to keep precious benefits, or encountering daily discrimination on the job. The strain of these challenges has a well-documented negative impact on our clients’ overall health. And with 77% of our clients living on $30,000 or less a year, paying for a lawyer is simply not a possibility.

Our job is to step in and use the law to alleviate the stresses our clients face.

77%

live on an income of $30,000 or less

53%

live on an income of $15,000 or less

64%

are over age 50 at intake

61%

identify as people of color

83%

identify as LGBTQ+

85%

are satisfied with ALRP's services

We are also an anchor partner in San Francisco’s unique model of helping people living with HIV and ending the epidemic.

This approach consists of a tight network of groups with expertise in specific areas related to HIV, such as medical and mental health care, treatment for substance use disorders, HIV prevention education, and benefits eligibility—and legal assistance.

The results of this wraparound approach have been stunning: in nearly every measurable way, the city is doing better at addressing HIV than any other place else in the nation.

Dive into ALRP's 40-year historyLearn more about our impact

Working at ALRP this summer has been a remarkable experience. Some of my favorite parts about the clerkship were building trust with clients, getting to know who they are, and following them through the timeline of their legal issues ... I am extremely grateful to both ALRP and their clients for providing these experiences and much more.

Giancarlo Rodriguez, Summer Law Clerk (2026)

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