AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) expresses profound disappointment after World Trade Organization (WTO) Member States failed to reach a decision on expanding COVID-19-related patent flexibilities to include diagnostics, medicines, and therapeutics …
AHF Urges WHO: Save Critical HIV Tech
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) urges the World Health Organization (WHO) to call on manufacturers of vital point-of-care (POC) CD4 equipment, including Abbott Laboratories and Becton Dickinson (BD), to continue production …
AHF Backs Africa CDC Push to Curb Cholera
In light of the ongoing acute cholera crisis and vaccine shortages across parts of Eastern and Southern Africa, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) strongly supports efforts by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention …
AHF Calls for Concrete Actions ahead of Pandemic Accord Negotiations in Geneva
As the INB-8 negotiations approach, the AHF Global Public Health Institute, in partnership with the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab, urges immediate action to ensure the WHO Pandemic …
Stop the Bickering – Save the Pandemic Accord
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) supports an appeal by The Elders, an influential group of former heads of state and civic leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, urging countries to avoid deadlock …
AHF Urges President Biden to Support WTO IP Waiver
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) calls on President Biden to support a proposal for an expanded waiver on intellectual property (IP) rights for COVID-19 treatments and diagnostics currently being advanced at …
Global HIV Progress Overstated: AHF Calls for UNAIDS Audit
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) sent an open letter today to the heads of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO), urging the two …
AI-Powered Antibiotics Must Go Beyond Big Pharma
While AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) commends the team of scientists that used artificial intelligence to discover the first new antibiotics in six decades, AHF urges governments and medical engineers to …
Anthrax Outbreak Exposes Global Health Inequities
With outbreaks of anthrax and another potentially unidentified disease having caused nearly 1,200 suspected cases and 20 deaths across five African countries, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) urges wealthy countries to …
WHO’s Tedros Sides with Big Pharma on Patents
In light of recent reports that World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is backtracking on his support for a waiver on COVID-19 vaccine patents to be expanded to diagnostics …
