By: David Tuller, The New York Times New York, NY – October 10, 2011 In the past year, three landmark clinical trials have shown that a daily dose of the antiretroviral medication …
AHF Thanks Congress Members
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today thanked Representatives Alcee Hastings, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ted Deutch, and Frederica Wilson, four Members of Congress from Florida, for their efforts to secure additional emergency …
AHF’s Weinstein says: “You can get tested today, infected tomorrow” in LA Weekly’s “Porn Defends the Money Shot”
Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS By: Dennis Romero, LA Weekly Los Angeles, CA – September 30, 2011 It’s the staple of porn and an element of Americana so pervasive that it has …
Questions about how porn industry handled HIV scare
By: Corina Knoll, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, CA – September 6, 2011 A filming moratorium in the porn industry was lifted this weekend after an adult-film performer whose HIV-positive test prompted a weeklong shutdown of …
LA Times: Porn actor’s positive HIV test provokes new calls for condom use
By: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, CA – August 30, 2011 With porn production temporary halted in Los Angeles after an adult film performer tested HIV-positive, some healthcare advocates are renewing their call for …
AIDS activists deliver letters to Gilead slamming drug policies
By: The Business Journals AIDS activists who have long voiced complaints about Gilead Sciences Inc.‘s HIV drug pricing and policies said Friday that they left1,593 letters with the company’s CEO detailing …
Condoms-in-porn L.A. ballot initiative petition effort underway
Adult film performers would be required to use condoms to obtain Los Angeles city film permits under a measure local AIDS activists hope to put on the city’s June 2012 …
AIDS Healthcare Foundation lobbies against fed PrEP approval
By: SAM SPOKONY, Gay City News New York – August 11, 2011 While medical professionals and advocacy groups have begun to promote the research and development of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a method of HIV prevention …
