July 29, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US’ largest AIDS organization as well as the operator of California’s largest alternative HIV testing program, is criticizing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (San Francisco, California – 8th District) today for her silence as Governor Schwarzenegger cuts more than $243 million from Health and Human Services—including $80 million from child welfare, $61 million from California’s Medicaid program, $50 million from the state’s insurance program for poor children and $52 million in AIDS prevention and treatment. Read More...
July 29, 2009
By: Judy Lin
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a revised $85 billion budget and targeted welfare for deeper cuts, prompting threats from Democratic lawmakers to block his political agenda during his final months in office. Read More...
July 28, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US’ largest AIDS organization as well as the operator of California’s largest alternative HIV testing program, today condemned Governor Schwarzenegger’s gutting of California’s lifesaving HIV/AIDS programs as he approves a budget plan that includes millions of dollars worth of cuts to the state’s HIV/AIDS education, prevention, counseling & testing, housing and treatment services. Read More...
July 28, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is proud to announce the global launch of its popular ‘Love Condoms’ campaign—innovative, local free condom distribution campaigns and stepped-up free HIV testing efforts in several hard-hit countries—with a series of events in numerous countries around the world. Read More...
July 24, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today renewed its challenge to Merck and Co. Pharmaceuticals, over the steep price for its key HIV/AIDS drug, Isentress (raltegravir), an integrase inhibitor initially approved in October 2007 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a salvage therapy. Read More...
July 23, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is pleased to announce that it has received a generous grant in the amount of $10,000 from the S.L. Gimbel Foundation Fund, which is managed by the Orange County Community Foundation, located in Irvine, CA. Read More...
July 20, 2009
By: Rebecca Cathcart, New York Times
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit against county health officials, accusing them of failing to regulate condom use in the pornography industry to protect actors and actresses from contracting H.I.V. and other diseases. Read More...
July 20, 2009
An AIDS advocacy group is taking legal steps to make Los Angeles health officials enforce health and safety rules on pornography film sets to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease. Read More...
July 20, 2009
California health officials have failed to address a reported HIV virus infection outbreak in the adult film industry, advocates said while filing a lawsuit. Read More...
July 20, 2009
By: IANS
With 2.5 million people living with HIV infection in India, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) Saturday launched a ‘Love Condom and Stay Negative’ campaign to make people aware about measures to prevent and control AIDS. Read More...
