August 26, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider which now provides treatment and services for more than 100,000 individuals in 21 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, today mourned the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy (D, MA) who died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, MA. Kennedy was the second-longest serving member of the Senate in its history (behind Democratic colleague Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia). Read More...
August 26, 2009
By: Víctor Lara Martínez
Poco más de 200 personas respondieron al llamado de las organizaciones civiles y la Secretaría de Salud, pero no todas aceptaron hacerse la prueba para detectar si son portadores del VIH/SIDA, informó Carlos Méndez Benavides, del Oasis San Juan de Dios,. Read More...
August 26, 2009
By: Karina Ortega
El Coordinador de Programa "Dignidad es Salud, Sexualidad y Derechos Humanos, Morelos", anunció el lanzamiento de la campaña "Love" en Morelos que tiene la finalidad de promocionar el uso de condones de forma gratuita, así como la realización de pruebas rápidas del VIH/SIDA, la cual se implementará en 16 estados de México. Read More...
August 25, 2009
In response to AIDS Healthcare Foundations (AHF) legal petition for a writ of mandate to compel Los Angeles Countyto fight the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in the porn industry, County attorneys have filed an eye-popping demurrer that shows the County. Read More...
August 21, 2009
By: Steve Gorman
An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints against 16 adult-film studios in California on Thursday, accusing them of violating state workplace safety rules by failing to require porn actors to wear condoms. Read More...
August 20, 2009
By: Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints Thursday with state officials against 16 production companies that show unprotected sex in porn movies. Read More...
August 20, 2009
By: Kimi Yoshino
Vowing "never to stop pushing" for condom use in porn, AIDS Healthcare Foundation officials said Wednesday that they plan to file complaints today with state officials against 16 California-based production companies they say have violated workplace safety laws. Read More...
August 20, 2009
By: Heather Downie and Bill McGuire
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said Thursday that it's filing complaints with the California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health over the non-use of condoms in the porn industry. Read More...
August 19, 2009
As part of its ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in porn films shot and produced in California in an effort to reduce the spread of STDs including HIV, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a press conference tomorrow, Thursday, August 20th at 10:30 AM Pacific to announce its filing of "Notice of Safety or Health Hazards" complaints with Cal/OSHA (California's Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health), the state's health and safety regulatory and watchdog organization, over the industry's blacklist on the use of condoms in porn. Read More...
August 14, 2009
By: Gary Leigh
Last week, Ramsey Dehani wrote about HIV campaigns from the perspective of a young gay man. Today, Gary Leigh, who remembers the "no nonsense" strategies of the 1980s, says the gay health charities have some tough questions to answer. Read More...
