May 19, 2009
Advocates and patients from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider, claimed victory after a quickly mobilized online grassroots campaign to persuade Los Angeles County public health officials to continue funding a crucial healthcare safety-net for some of the County’s most vulnerable AIDS patients prompted the County restore more than $1 million in funding for vital AIDS medical services that was to be cut from local service providers. Read More...
May 15, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest non-profit HIV/AIDS organization in the US which currently provides medical care and services to more than 100,000 individuals in 21 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, and which has been critical of President Obama’s silence on AIDS throughout his first hundred days, today lauded the President’s appointment of New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden as head of the Centers for Disease Control. Read More...
May 12, 2009
Los defensores y los activistas contra el SIDA de Colombia y otros países cantaron victoria hoy después de que el gobierno colombiano anunció que recortará el precio de Kaletra, el fármaco salva vidas producido por la farmacéutica Abbott Laboratories para el tratamiento del SIDA, a US$ 1.067 para los hospitales y las clínicas del sector público y a US$ 1.591 para el sector privado. Read More...
May 11, 2009
Colombian and international AIDS advocates and activists claimed victory today after the government of Colombia announced that it will cut the price of Abbott Laboratories’ lifesaving AIDS drug, Kaletra to $1,067 USD for the public sector hospitals and clinics and $1,591 USD for the private sector. Read More...
May 8, 2009
Advocates and patients from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will challenge officials from L.A. County’s Department of Public Health including Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of Public Health and Health Officer for the County, as well bureaucrats from the Office of AIDS Programs and Policies (OAPP) over their recent move to slash over $600,000 in funds for direct patient care services—including HIV/AIDS medical care and the provision of lifesaving antiretroviral AIDS drugs—to some of Los Angeles County’s most vulnerable residents living with HIV/AIDS. Read More...
May 7, 2009
To complement its traditional media strategy AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US’ largest nonprofit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider, has recently gone viral, reaching millions of online users with its innovative HIV/AIDS advocacy and prevention campaigns distributed on the internet. Utilizing video and text created in-house or by contracted agencies, AHF’s most recent viral campaigns have achieved impressive results, reaching nearly nine million viewers and driving millions of visitors to its website: www.aidshealth.org. Read More...
April 30, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the major provider of comprehensive HIV services in the United States, with a presence in more than 20 countries around the world, including many in the Americas, hosted the “1st Central American Summit on Rapid HIV Detection Tests,” at the Hotel Princess in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on April 27 and 28, 2009. Para espanol oprima aqui. Read More...
April 29, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, la mayor proveedora de servicios integrales de VIH en Estados Unidos, con presencia en más de 20 países alrededor del mundo, incluidos varios de América, fue anfitriona de la “1.ª Cumbre Centroamericana sobre Pruebas Rápidas de Detección en VIH”, en el Hotel Princess de la Ciudadde Guatemala, Guatemala los días 27 y 28 de abril de 2009. Read More...
April 27, 2009
La AidsHealth Care Foundation -AHF- superó con 600 mil diagnósticos más su meta de un millón de pruebas rápidas de detección de VIH que se impuso a nivel mundial para el pasado 1 de diciembre, Día de la Lucha contra el Sida, informó el encargado de asuntos internacionales de esta organización Jorge Saavedra. Read More...
April 27, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today lauded President Obama’s choice of Dr. Eric Goosby as Global AIDS Coordinator for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the lifesaving US global AIDS program first spearheaded by President George W. Bush six years ago. Read More...