November 2, 2009
Recent Washington Post Articles Detail Widespread Mismanagement and Corruption in District of Columbia Health Department's HIV/AIDS Administration; Millions May Have Been Misspent and Remain Unaccounted For as the District Copes with Highest AIDS Rate in the Nation Read More...
October 30, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today lauded President Barack Obama for lifting a 22 year-old ban prohibiting HIV-positive foreigners from traveling to the US. The US was one of only twelve countries with such a travel ban. Read More...
October 30, 2009
As part of an ambitious global effort to test several million people for HIV in observance of the Testing Millions World AIDS Day 2009 campaign, AHF/Cambodia CARES will launch its inaugural testing effort during the annual Water Festival, which marks the end of the rainy season and is the largest festival in the Cambodian calendar. Read More...
October 29, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation will present a poster at this year’s U.S. Conference on AIDS in San Francisco this weekend—October 29-31. One Million Tests: 2008 World AIDS Day Global Campaign—Revamping the VCT Model to Streamlined Rapid Testing demonstrates the results of AHF’s large-scale global HIV testing campaign in which more than 1. 6 million people in 27 countries were tested for HIV in the months leading up to World AIDS Day 2008. Read More...
October 27, 2009
Партнерство между ФМП, Санкт-Петербургским Государственным Учреждением здравоохранения «Центр по профилактике и борьбе с инфекционными заболеваниями»; Региональной общественной организацией «СПИД, статистика, здоровье» и Санкт-Петербургским Государственным Учреждением здравоохранения поликлиникой № 109 обеспечит доступ к услугам тестирования и консультирования на ВИЧ, лечения и ухода при ВИЧ/СПИДе, включая антиретровирусную терапию, опираясь на подход, ориентированный на нужды пациента в новом отделении диспансеризации и лечения во Фрунзенском районе Санкт-Петербурга. Read More...
October 26, 2009
Late night television comic Jimmy Kimmel put a national spotlight on AHF’s campaign to require condoms to be used in all porn production when he used a news clip from the recent protest at the Downtown Los Angeles Marriott Hotel as a springboard for jokes in his monologue on the ABC Network’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live! show on Friday, October 23rd. Read More...
October 26, 2009
Saint-Petersburg Government Healthcare Institution’s Center for Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases; AIDS, Statistics, Health, a respected regional non-governmental organization (NGO); and Saint-Petersburg Government Healthcare Institution’s Policlinic N109 are honored to announce that they are forming an innovative new partnership to provide free HIV testing and prevention services and HIV/AIDS medical care in Saint-Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city. Medical care will include the provision of lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART) to people living with HIV/AIDS via a newly established outpatient HIV unit created by the partnership and located at the City Policlinic 109 in Frunzensky District, Saint-Petersburg. Read More...
October 26, 2009
By: Michael Weinstein & Dr. Homayoon Khanlou, M.D.
News of the possible misrepresentation of the results of the $105 million study—funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Military—has already harmed the credibility of AIDS vaccine research. And, without an independent body evaluating the decisions of the NIH, the erosion of public opinion is sure to continue. Read More...
October 26, 2009
By: LA Times Staff
The Home staff has culled recommendations from the architects, interior designers and do-it-yourselfers featured in this section to compile this list of resources for anyone planning to remodel, redecorate or otherwise turn his or her home into a work in progress. Read More...
October 22, 2009
By: Dennis Romero
The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand smut that features actors who do not use condoms. Read More...
