March 12, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Norfolk, VA and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner ‘Access AIDS Care,’ at two events today Friday, March 12th. Read More...
March 11, 2010
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a media availability tomorrow, Thursday, March 11th to discuss its filing of an appeal in its lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) to require condom use or other reasonable steps to protect actors in the production of pornography in Los Angeles County. Read More...
March 9, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Charlotte, North Carolina and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner the Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium, today Tuesday, March 9th at Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, 727 West Trade Street, from 12:00 noon until 6:00 pm. Read More...
March 9, 2010
By: Molly Hennessy-Fiske
In response to pressure from AIDS Healthcare Foundation officials, state regulators are poised to consider amending state law to require condom use in adult film production. Read More...
March 8, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Columbia, South Carolina to host free HIV testing events, along with local partner South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council, today and tomorrow, March 3rd and 4th from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. All are welcome to attend. Read More...
March 8, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Jacksonville, Florida today and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner JASMYN and APEL Health Services, today Saturday, March 6th at APEL Health Services, 5353 Soutel Dr., from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. All are welcome to attend. Read More...
March 4, 2010
‘Testing Millions,’ a groundbreaking global effort led by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to test millions of people for HIV as part of a global testing campaign tied to the recent observance of World AIDS Day (December 1st) has far surpassed its goal by testing more than 4.2 million people for HIV and identifying more than 110,106 HIV-positive individuals in 23 countries around the. Read More...
March 3, 2010
As part of its ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in porn films in an effort to reduce the spread of STDs including HIV, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will take aim at a porn industry health clinic—a fig leaf for the porn industry—during a protest and press conference tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th starting at 10:15 AM Pacific at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation’s (AIM) HIV Testing Clinic in Sherman Oaks (4630 Van Nuys Blvd. 91403). Read More...
March 2, 2010
By: Michael Weinstein
The nationwide furor around gay marriage has eclipsed at least temporarily the health crisis that continues to plague gay men. At the same time that we heard wedding bells and pledges of life-long fidelity from gay men in Massachusetts and elsewhere, we have soaring rates of HIV in homosexual men. Read More...
March 1, 2010
Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced that the two largest public pension funds in the nation, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), have sent letters to Merck and Co. Pharmaceuticals expressing concern over the company’s pricing for its key HIV/AIDS drug, Isentress—now the most expensive first-line AIDS treatment in the U.S. Read More...