This series consists of files about AIDS programs in a number of states within the United States and in several other countries. It includes newspapers clippings, grant requests, correspondence, reports, statistics, publicity materials, and publications.

Many of the State folders include grant proposals to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RJW) AIDS Health Services Program (AHSP). Most of these are full proposals with attachments, in some cases only the narrative part of the grant is included. Also included in this series are reports and other items such as the "Report to the County Commissioners, Mayor and the City Council" from the East Metro AIDS Task Force of St. Paul, Minnesota. Correspondence includes letters soliciting materials, thanking agencies for materials, arranging visits to the IHPS, reviews of grant proposals, and more. The California files are from southern California and consist primarily of RJW grant proposals. As might be expected the largest number of folders are for New York State, covering a number of different cities, organizations, and subjects. Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and Utah are some of the single folder states.

The Country files section begins with folders for Africa and Asia, though many individual countries from these two continents are also represented. Another multi-country regional designation used was Scandinavia, which includes materials on Sweden and Finland; the Netherlands has a separate folder. The Puerto Rico folder, though included with the other Countries files, contains RWJ AHSP proposal the same as many of the State folders. Many of the Country files consist solely of newspaper clippings and several contain only a single sheet of material. The Australia folder contains several issues of an Australian AIDS publication.

Most of the states and countries are represented by a single file. States with multiple folders are subdivided by city and/or organization or project. The first folder of the series contains information from the United States Conference of Mayors, followed by states in alphabetical order and then by Countries in alphabetical order.