The Mission of The Philadelphia AIDS Consortium is to create a broad-based community response to the HIV epidemic in the five southeastern Pennsylvania counties:  Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia, and to ensure the availability and coordination of high quality, comprehensive health and social services to individuals who are infected with or affected by HIV or whose behavior puts them at risk for HIV infection.  The Consortium shall pursue its mission, not through providing direct services, but through planning and program development and advocacy, funding and resource development, and by providing management services to health and social programs concerned with the HIV epidemic.

The primary methods to be used by the Consortium in achieving its mission shall be:
 
to act as a coordinating and contracting unit for the provision of HIV-related   services by working with existing community health agencies and organizations wherever possible:

to develop policies and systems to ensure the smooth and efficient operation and continuation and expansion of high quality services and programs;

to develop resources and training for programs and staff, by working with existing community health agencies and organizations wherever possible to enhance health services;

to conduct research and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS health and social services;

to inform and educate the residents of the five southeastern Pennsylvania counties:  Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia, and their public policy makers;

to identify gaps in the current system of care for persons with AIDS and HIV infection and to formulate and implement strategies for meeting those needs; and

to provide management and support services to participating organizations.