Southern Tier AIDS Program, Inc. | 380 followers on LinkedIn. Help, Hope, Here...since 1984 | Founded in 1984 by a small group of concerned citizens as “Friends Who Care”, the Southern Tier AIDS Program began with $50,000, three staff, donated office space and a desire to ease the suffering of our friends who were dying. Thirty-seven years later STAP is an organization of 75+ professional staff and an operating budget of 3 million dollars annually. The passion and creativity that began this organization continues to inform us today as we provide supportive services to HIV+ persons and state of the art prevention education from 9 offices in 8 counties (Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Tioga and Tompkins) of the Southern Tier of New York.