AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today applauded Merck and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) for their recent sublicensing agreements with 27 generic drug companies for the manufacturing of the oral COVID-19 antiviral medication …
AHF Echoes Lawmakers’ Call to Boost Global Vaccine Supply
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) expressed support today for a call by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who urged the Biden Administration “to substantially increase the global supply …
Top Moderna Shareholders Must Dump Stock
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) sent letters to the top investors of Moderna, Inc. this week, urging them to divest from the vaccine maker in the interest of corporate social responsibility. …
The World Must Challenge China’s Attack on Public Health Transparency
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) expressed alarm and disappointment today over China’s reported move to delete language supporting rapid World Health Organization (WHO) access to outbreak sites in future pandemics from …
Steep Price Cuts Are Imperative to Sustain Global Vaccine Drive
The United States government should require COVID-19 vaccine producers to donate or sell doses at cost to support the humanitarian push to vaccinate our world, according to a statement by …
Honoring Archbishop Desmond Tutu, An Advocate and Believer in Humanity
With deep sadness, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) marks the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an iconic freedom fighter and defender of tolerance whose love comforted, inspired, and empowered millions of people in …
AHF: Moderna Beats Retreat on Patents in After-Hours, Skirting the Markets
After months of relentless pressure by the US government and civil society organizations, including AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Moderna has been compelled to put on hold its dispute with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over …
Abysmal Progress on Vaccine Sharing Marks Their First Anniversary
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in the United States. It is also an unfortunate reminder of the glaring inequalities in vaccine access that persist among …
Africa Leadership on a New Global Public Health Convention
COVID-19 has demonstrated that African leaders must take charge of responding to pandemics on the continent, because support from the Global North can be unreliable and slow during global health …
AIDS: The Other Pandemic
After nearly two years of the world’s attention being fixed upon COVID-19, AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s World AIDS Day (WAD) 2021 theme – “AIDS: The Other Pandemic” – has never been …
