AHF Launches U.S. LOVE Condoms Campaign at “House of Blues Sunset Strip”

Ten Los Angeles-Area Nightclubs—Including MJ’s, FuBar, Silverlake Lounge and Gold Coast— Have Already Installed “LOVE Condoms” Dispensers, Stocked with Free “LOVE”-Branded Condoms in Eye-Catching, Red Foil Packets

More Than 80,000 Free Condoms Have Been Distributed by AHF in the U.S. and Canada Through Campaign Website: www.getfreecondoms.org

By: AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA - August 11, 2009

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS organization in the US and which currently provides HIV/AIDS medical care and/or services to more than 100,000 individuals in 21 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and the Asia Pacific Region, is proud to announce the domestic (U.S. and Canada) launch of its popular ‘LOVE Condoms’ campaign. The campaign was enveiled today, Wednesday, August 12th at 10:30 AM, at an event in the Parish Room at the world famous House of Blues Sunset Strip.

The domestic “LOVE Condoms” effort includes the installation of free condom dispensers at nightclubs and bars throughout Los Angeles stocked with AHF’s own specially-branded “LOVE” condoms in eye catching, bright red foil condom packets with the word LOVE printed on the wrapper. Los Angeles-area bars and nightclubs who are already participating in the campaign include MJ’s, Little Joy, Fiesta Cantina, FuBar, Silverlake Lounge, Le Barcito, Alibis East, The Hookup, Gold Coast Bar and Hamburger Mary’s.

An important component of the campaign is its website, www.getfreecondoms.org, designed to provide important sexual health information and promote condom-use. Organizations and individuals can also order a limited number of free condoms through the site.

“With the ‘LOVE Condoms’ campaign, AHF hopes to restore the condom’s rightful place at the forefront of HIV/AIDS prevention in the U.S.,” said Jessie Gruttadauria, AHF’s Director of Public Affairs and the manager of AHF’s Domestic Condoms Campaign. “AHF has been heartened by the online response to the campaign. More than 80,000 free condoms have already been distributed to organizations and individuals across the U.S. and Canada.”

Added Gruttadauria: “We are also grateful to the bars and nightclubs in the Los Angeles area that have joined the effort and already installed ‘LOVE’ condom dispensers. We invite other establishments to become a part of AHF’s campaign to increase access to condoms throughout the city.”

AHF’s domestic “LOVE Condoms” campaign is part of the organization’s innovative, worldwide HIV prevention and awareness campaign featuring the promotion and distribution of “LOVE”-branded condoms and an informational website www.getfreecondoms.org. The “LOVE Condoms” campaign has already launched to great success in several countries, including India, Swaziland, Lithuania, Ukraine, South Africa, Estonia, Thailand and Uganda.

“The ‘Love Condoms’ campaign is just the beginning of a global movement that can take safer sex to a higher level worldwide,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “With new leadership in Washington D.C. vowing to base public health initiatives on science rather than on political or religious motivated agendas, now is the time to call for condoms to be brought back to the forefront of HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. Lives are at stake.”

About The ‘Love Condoms’ Campaign

The LOVE Condom Campaign’s goal is to scale-up global support for renewed condom usage by distributing TEN MILLION WHO-approved, high-quality condoms FREE of charge to any individual, non-governmental or government agency that makes a commitment to support the campaign’s aim of achieving 100% access to free condoms worldwide. To achieve ‘Global AIDS Control’ an aggressive re-integration of condoms is critical to success. To learn more about the LOVE Condom, please visit: www.getfreecondoms.org