About the Oregon AETC

Who We Are

The Oregon AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) is a program of the Mountain West AETC funded in part by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to offer provider education to improve patient health outcomes for people at risk or living with HIV while preventing new infections in our community. Currently serving all counties in Oregon and SW Washington, the Oregon AETC continues to expand our efforts statewide. 

Background

The Oregon AETC has been funded to provide clinical education and training to the medical community of Oregon and SW Washington for over 20 years. Originally located at the Research + Education group, the Oregon AETC served as the educational arm to ongoing HIV-related clinical research in Oregon and SW Washington.  Founded in 1982 as the Oregon AIDS Task Force, The Research + Education Group was the largest community-based HIV research program in the Pacific Northwest. Its consortium of 30 participating physician investigators and mid-level practitioners in Oregon and Southwest Washington provide primary care to over 2900 HIV patients at 13 clinical sites in the Portland area. In 2014, the Research + Education Group was dissolved and the remaining studies and the Oregon AETC contract were moved to the Portland VA Research Foundation. In 2023, the Oregon AETC became a program of the Oregon Primary Care Association increasing capacity building assistance to 34 primary care clinics across Oregon to support the integration of HIV/STI care into primary care medical homes.

The Oregon AETC is closely affiliated with the Multnomah County Department of Health's HIV Health Services Center (HHSC) in Portland, a MWAETC subcontractor and the largest Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act, Part C clinic in Oregon. We are dedicated to the End HIV Oregon mission to significantly reduce new HIV infections across the state in the next five years through testing, protection, and treatment.