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AHF Marks World AIDS Day with HIV Testing & Awareness

Events in 32 Countries; Celebrates Milestone: 500,000 Lives


in Care

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Basis (AHF), your largest global AIDS
organization, will commemorate Globe AIDS Day upon December 1 through dozens regarding free
HIV awareness as well as screening events throughout US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, Eastern
Europe, and Asia.
According towards the world health Organization, there are concerning 36.9 million folks living
together with HIV/AIDS globally. Inside 2014, 2 million folks became recently infected with HIV. in
latest years, usage of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) has expanded and now 15.8 million
people about the entire world are usually receiving it. However, access to HIV screening as well as
early diagnosis of the disease remain any critical gap inside the global reaction to always be able to
AIDS. WHO estimates that will currently just with regards to 53% of people along with HIV know
their own status.
in countries almost all round the world, AHF is actually working to grow access to prevention and
also treatment method for HIV/AIDS so that we could decrease the gap within individuals who're
positive along with dont understand it, said AHF President Michael Weinstein. We have become
reaching over half-a-million men, ladies and also youngsters with lifesaving health care in thirty-six
countries around the worlda remarkable accomplishment that will merely a fantastic team
associated with patients, health-related providers, staff and volunteers could are making possible.
In Globe AIDS Day and the weeks preceding and following it, AHF can be organizing the series of
events within many regarding its 36 countries regarding operation, intended in order to improve the
level of HIV awareness on their email list of high risk groups along with make convenient, totally
free rapid screening as well as linkage to care available to communities across the world. Although
this coming year AHF is commemorating your world AIDS Day beneath the unifying slogan of Dream
Large Finish it!, your events inside every nation will be adapted to the neighborhood setting with a
specific focus around the populations most impacted within the respective regions.
"We tend to be so proud being caring with regard to 500,000 people living together with HIV about
your worldmore when compared with half becoming in Africa alone. We have saved greater than 1
million youngsters via becoming orphaned. However there is so much more in order to do, said AHF
Chief of Global Advocacy and also Policy Terri Ford. This world AIDS Day we decided to Dream
Large - end it! Together With a new huge scale-up associated with free HIV rapid testing as well as
referral in order to care, we can find and also treat the particular 21 million HIV people with similar
positive who are not accessing antiretroviral treatment. We additionally need to reinvigorate any
mass availability as well as marketing associated with attractively packaged condoms. Condoms
workif obtainable along with used. When we stick with Test & Treat, we tend to be able to and also
will quit AIDS."
Down Below is a selection via dozens involving Globe AIDS Day events planned by AHF across its 5
global Bureaus. A New total set of AHFs U.S. and international world AIDS Day events can be
accessed with ahfwad.org.

Africa
Uganda The number of smaller sized community-based testing events with a culminating grand
event inside the Masaka district, which will feature spoken phrase poetry, music competitions
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oral+sex as well as artwork contests.
Asia
Cambodia An event coinciding with the standard row boat river racing, which usually attracts 1000s
of spectators, will feature HIV testing events co-organized through AHF and also neighborhood
partners, focusing around the younger adults.
Europe
Ukraine Within conjunction with just about all the European testing Week, AHF Ukraine will perform
community screening outreach along with host the high-level round table with key stakeholders,
targeted at improving and marketing the particular adoption in the newest evidence-based HIV
screening policies inside Ukraine.
India
India - Neighborhood based HIV testing in 17. states together with active testing partners
throughout campaign mode using a goal associated with 20,000 tests.
Latin America
Mexico four flash mobs together with participation regarding younger individuals are planned across
Mexico City, for you to raise awareness with regards to HIV as well as the importance of knowing
ones status; in addition to art competitions involving photography, illustration along with graphic
design.
AHF Celebrates having More Than 500,000 Patients inside Treatment About The Entire World
This world AIDS Day AHF is also celebrating reaching the actual historic milestone that, as
November 13th, the corporation can be providing lifesaving HIV/AIDS medical care as well as
services to around 500,000 patients in 36 countries where it at present has operations, including
South Africa exactly where more than half its patients reside. AHF will be rolling out a new
celebratory billboard campaign along with internet hosting
http://www.avert.org/sex-stis/how-to-have-sex/oral-sex commemorative events inside Los Angeles
along with South Florida. Upon December 1st in the ArcLight Hollywood Theater throughout Los
Angeles, AHF will host a free of charge screening of an AHF-produced film featuring highlights
through AHFs domestic as well as global activities Cunillingus that have led towards the capacity
with regard to AHF to supply health care as well as solutions to in excess of 500,000 lives
throughout 36 countries. The comparable screening is likely to be held in December 2nd in the
Classic Gateway Theater in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Inside addition, a new newspaper sticky note ad
marketing campaign celebrating the 500,000 benchmark will run inside newspapers inside Los
Angeles, South Florida, Washington, DC as well as Atlanta across the observation regarding Globe
AIDS Day about December 1st.
500,000 patients in care isone of the greatest accomplishments within the 28-year good popularity
for AHF, continued Weinstein. Merely 2 yrs ago, we celebrated 250,000 patients throughout care.

For You To now reach more than twice that will variety of lives will be incredible. We celebrate
today, and as we carry on, I am confident that the leadership of AHFs domestic as well as global
applications gets the capability, and in addition the will, to consider us to one million lives inside
treatment more than the next 5 years.
AHF provides health care as Cunninglus well as solutions within nearly 300 global clinics throughout
35 other countries including:
THE AMERICAS10 countries, including: Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti,
Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay along with Peru (as well since the previously cited United States).
AFRICA11 countries, including: Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda as well as Zambia.
ASIA8 countries, including: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and
Vietnam.
EUROPE7 countries, including: Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia as well as
Ukraine.
Within addition, AHF operates 49 free of charge HIV/AIDS healthcare centers in 14 states and in
addition the District regarding Columbia in the U.S. (California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,Indiana,
Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Washington
[state] and Washington, DC).
With Regards To HIV:
HIV will be transmitted through the particular next methods:
Getting sex with out a condom HIV infection can happen by means of anal, vaginal or even oral sex
without the use of your condom. Unprotected (condom-less) oral sex is not as risky as vaginal and
also anal, but still can easily spread HIV, specially when there are cuts, bleeding gums or canker
sores in the mouth.Learn more about condoms in supplement in order to their use. Sharing needles,
syringes or even drug functions Sharing any of the equipment to inject drugs may spread
Cunninlingus HIV. Pregnancy, childbirth as well as breastfeeding With Out treatment, an HIVpositive woman will transmit HIV to the woman's youngster while pregnant or childbirth with
regards to 25% of the time. babies could additionally turn out in order to be positive via
breastfeeding.
AIDS Healthcare Basis (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, at present provides medical care
and/or services to within excessive of 500,000 people throughout 36 countries worldwide within the
US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, your Asia/Pacific Region along with Eastern Europe. In Order
To learn a little much more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org, find us in
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aidshealth along with comply with us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare
and Cunninglis Instagram: @aidshealthcare

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