CHAG History
Founded in 1985, CHAG was the first organization in Detroit to develop and implement an alternative source of AIDS education and information within the African-American community. As a pioneer in the use of indigenous leaders, CHAG included men, women, former injecting drug users, sex workers, and black gay/bisexual males in the planning process. The organization has grown in size and scope over the years.

Today, CHAG is the largest minority AIDS service organization in Michigan. CHAG aims to reduce health disparities that negatively impact the African-American community by providing a continuum of HIV prevention, HIV care, mental health, and substance abuse services in addition to partnering with organizations to address conditions such as obesity, cancer, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.

The agency's size and expertise is the result of more than 23 years experience in community-based outreach to substance users and individuals with high-risk behaviors, including those already infected with HIV. These individualized interventions to the community provide a bridge to other health and human services throughout the metropolitan area. For many African-Americans in Detroit who are living with, at-risk for, or affected by HIV, CHAG is the point at which all other services begin.