Nebraska AIDS Project

NAP expanded the hotline's hours and added more phone lines to deal with the increase in Nebraskans' questions about AIDS.

[3] NAP expanded to provide cooking, cleaning, and transportation to HIV-positive clients, and a "Buddies" program offering emotional support.

[4] Shaw remarked that, in forming local chapters in Nebraska, "one of our biggest challenges will be to help people learn to live with AIDS rather than preparing to die from it.

[7] NAP provided HIV testing in its own facilities and at gay bars, soup kitchens, and cultural and community centers.

[10] In the early days of NAP, Nebraskans typically perceived AIDS as a problem of distant urban centers and unfamiliar gay subcultures.

[12] Some response forms were "very negative" toward homosexual or HIV-positive patients; one responded by mailing back Evangelical Christian literature.