June 14, 2010
Up to one hundred AIDS activists arrived at a protest Tuesday, June 15th at 10:00 AM, hosted by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), targeting New York-based Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) over the pricing and policies for its key HIV/AIDS drug, Reyataz, one of the most expensive first-line AIDS treatment in the US. The protest took place outside the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City just prior to an 11:30 AM presentation by Lamberto Andreotti to investors—his first as BMS’ CEO—at the Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference 2010.
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June 10, 2010
By: Carl Matthes
It will soon be 20 years – Nov. 7, 1991 – since Magic Johnson went before a packed news conference at the Forum in Inglewood, California, to reveal that he was HIV positive and would be retiring from basketball.
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June 9, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Newark, New Jersey tomorrow and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner North Jersey Community Research Initiative d.b.a. North Jersey AIDS Alliance from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM at Boylan Street Recreation Area on South Orange Ave. and from 2:00 pm to 4:00 PM at Springfield Avenue and 20th Street.
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June 9, 2010
By: Jim Edwards
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) wants to kill 7,000 babies who need its Videx HIV drug by closing the factory that makes it and abandoning the kids who are dependent on the product!
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June 8, 2010
The image above, now appearing on billboards throughout Los Angeles, is designed to educate the public about AHF Pharmacy. Did you know that anyone can use an AHF Pharmacy to fill any prescription?
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June 7, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Hartford, Connecticut and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner AIDS Project Hartford from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM tomorrow, Tuesday, June 8th at Immaculate Shelter, 560 Park St.
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June 4, 2010
Thousands of people from across the Southland and around the state are invited to help raise funds for crucial lifesaving HIV/AIDS services in California on Sunday September 26th by joining together to participate in the California AIDS Walk.
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June 4, 2010
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) lauded Gilead Sciences, maker of several key AIDS drugs, for its announcement earlier today that it will offer significant pricing and access concessions for the nation’s beleaguered AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs), the federally funded, state run programs that supply lifesaving AIDS drugs to low-income Americans in need.
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June 3, 2010
By: Lou Chibbaro Jr.
U.S. Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) have joined 76 of their House colleagues to sign a petition to President Obama calling for $126 million in emergency funds for the federal AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
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June 3, 2010
Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) launched a new effort in its campaign to lower the price of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) key AIDS drug Reyataz which, at $13,000 per patient per year, costs up to 2½ times more than other AIDS drugs.
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