October 22, 2009
By: Jonathan Lloyd and Patrick Healy
Protesters demanded that Marriott and other hotels stop showing pay-per-view adult movies that include scenes of unprotected sex. And what better way to make the case then to check into a penthouse, shell out $16 and watch some porn -- all in the name of research. Read More...
October 22, 2009
By: Nora Proops and Courtney McQueen
The HIV vaccine clinical trial, RV144, that was hailed as a success in September is now under scrutiny by other researchers and activists, who say the results may have been due to chance. What has caused this backlash, and why are the results now in question? Read More...
October 21, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization which provides services to more than 129,000 people in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, today commended Congress for its passage of the Ryan White CARE Act (RWCA, or the CARE Act), the federal law that provides the primary source of funding for AIDS care and services nationwide. Read More...
October 21, 2009
By: Rhett Pardon
A movement to make porn films condom-only is sure to gain further traction on Wednesday as two groups plan to protest the Marriott hotel chain. Read More...
October 21, 2009
As Part of Ongoing Campaign to Require Condom Use in Adult Films, Advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Pink Cross Foundation will Protest the Mormon-founded Marriott Hotel Chain as Middlemen Selling Condom-less Porn via Its Entertainment Lineup in the Chain’s Hotel Rooms Read More...
October 20, 2009
AHF strives to offer health, healing and hope to those living with HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region. AHF Asia Pacific Bureau currently operates twenty-seven antiretroviral treatment centers in India, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Thailand and Nepal, providing HIV treatment, care and support services to 10,000 patients.
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October 16, 2009
On Tuesday, October 13th, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) opened a Men's Wellness Center at AHF “Magic Johnson” Healthcare Center located at Jackson North, to provide, at no cost to clients, confidential and comprehensive sexual health services for men—including HIV and STD (sexually-transmitted disease) testing and treatment—in one convenient location. Read More...
October 14, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the operator of the largest non-government HIV testing program in California, today praised the California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signing Assembly Bill 221, legislation which updates and streamlines the training of counselors for rapid HIV testing by exempting persons administering finger stick rapid HIV tests from the requirement for certification as a limited phlebotomy technician (LPT). Read More...
October 14, 2009
By: Peter Mansell
The acres of media coverage accorded last month to positive results from a late-stage trial of a combination AIDS vaccine in Thailand were only part of the story, it has emerged. Read More...
October 12, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider in the US which now provides treatment and services for more than 110,000 individuals in 21 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, expressed frustration and dissapointment at the news that data that seriously undermines a widely reported Thai HIV vaccine trial were not released publicly when other, more favorable data from the vaccine trial were publicly reported late last month. Read More...
