October 26, 2009
By: Michael Weinstein & Dr. Homayoon Khanlou, M.D.
News of the possible misrepresentation of the results of the $105 million study—funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Military—has already harmed the credibility of AIDS vaccine research. And, without an independent body evaluating the decisions of the NIH, the erosion of public opinion is sure to continue. 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
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 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...
October 8, 2009
By: Ged Kenslea
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today hailed the news that four million people from low and middle income countries living with HIV/AIDS were on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment in 2008, a 36% increase over 2007. Read More...
October 8, 2009
By: Lori Yeghiayan
Responding to today’s news that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Antiviral Advisory Committee has approved Pfizer Inc.'s AIDS therapy, Selzentry (maraviroc), for use in therapy-naïve patients, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) strongly criticized Pfizer for its current pricing of the drug the at an Average Wholesale Price (AWP) of $13,767 per-patient per-year—which, if this price remains when use is expanded, would make it the most expensive first-line AIDS drug on the market. Read More...
October 6, 2009
To achieve ‘Global AIDS Control’, an aggressive re-integration of condoms is critical to success. The goal of the LOVE Condoms Campaign, is to scale-up to 100% access to free condoms, worldwide. Read More...
