Who We Are

The Border AIDS Partnership (BAP) is one of more than 30 community partnerships in the U.S. affiliated with the National AIDS Fund, an organization that promotes leadership and generates resources for effective community responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The El Paso Community Foundation and the US/Mexico Border Health Association partnered in 1994 to create a local HIV/AIDS partnership that would provide assistance to nonprofit organizations in the surrounding region working on this critical health problem.  The resulting collaboration, with support from the National AIDS Fund, created the BAP, a bi-national and tri-state funding collaborative that has been providing funding for HIV/AIDS education and prevention activities in El Paso, Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In January 2007, the Border AIDS Partnership received its 501c3 letter of determination and continues the critical work of funding community based organizations  in our region, as an independent nonprofit.

Since 1996, the Border AIDS partnership has distributed, in the form of effective grants, more than $1.5 million to support innovative HIV prevention programs that include:

• TAB-CARES (Peer Education Training Program) - targeting 16 to 21 year olds to help prevent behaviors that put them at risk of HIV infection in El Paso;
  
  
• Raza al Rescate (HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention & Education) outreach workers educate, inform and train Spanish-speaking youth and your adults of Sunland Park, Anapra and Santa Teresa in HIV/AIDS prevention and human sexuality issues.
  
  
• Mujeres Unidas en Accion Contra el SIDA (Women United in Action Against AIDS) a community-based peer education program targeting women with limited access to HIV screening and other health services in Southern New Mexico
  
  
• Grupo de Apoyo H.I.Vida (outreach to Homosexual Youth) Peer education and outreach to young gay population in Juarez, ages 14-35, to promote safe behavior.

For every two dollars raised locally, the BAP gets a one-dollar match from the National AIDS Fund through the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Other major funders are El Paso Community Foundation, Burkitt Foundation, Hunt Family Foundation, M-A-C AIDS Fund, Hervery Foundation, Stern Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Hoy Fox Automotive Group and Bank of America.

The Border AIDS Partnership is comprised of committed community volunteers who together raise funds for programs to support individuals affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.

In April 2010, the BAP awarded $138,000 to ten HIV/AIDS education, prevention and care-services programs serving men, women and children in El Paso, Juárez, Mexico and southern New Mexico.