LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF will be hosting a Media Availability & Private Luncheon Reception Wednesday, December 31st from 12noon until 2:00pm in Hollywood to introduce four of nine surviving siblings of Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, one of the AHF-affiliated doctors who died of Ebola in West Africa earlier this year. The reception will take place at AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Department of Medicine (1811 Western Ave. Los Angeles CA 90027). The four Khan family siblings will ride on AHF’s “Protecting Global Health: Ebola First Responders” Rose Parade float in honor of, and tribute to their fallen brother.
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MEDIA AVAILABILITY (& PRIVATE LUNCHEON RECEPTION): Meet family members of Dr. Khan, who will be riding on AHF’s 2015 Tournament of Roses float in honor of their fallen brother. Dr. Khan was the AIDS Healthcare physician in Sierra Leone who died of Ebola July 29, 2014. |
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December 31st 12 noon – 2:00 pm |
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| Where: | AHF Department of Medicine | ||
| 1811 Western Ave, Los Angeles CA 90027 | |||
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Michael Weinstein, President, AIDS Healthcare Foundation |
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(Mr.) Sahid Khan, (Philadelphia) brother of Dr. Khan |
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(Mr.) Alhajie Khan, brother; and sisters |
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(Ms.) Umu Khan and |
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(Ms.) Isatu “Assie” Khan Sei, (all of the Washington, DC/Maryland area). |
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| NOTE: | MEDIA, kindly RSVP to: | ||
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Ged Kenslea, +1.323.308.1833 work +1.323.791.5526 mobile gedk@aidshealth.org |
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Christopher Johnson, +1.323.960.4846 work +1.310.886.9913 mobile christopher.johnson@aidshealth.org |
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Following the Ebola deaths of two physicians working with AIDS Healthcare Foundation in West Africa, AHF decided to dedicate its entry in the 126th Rose Parade® to honor the inspiring—often heartrending—stories of these Ebola First Responders working tirelessly to save lives worldwide. AHF’s float honors the doctors, nurses, medical assistants, orderlies and all health care and support workers—both living and deceased, anonymous or high profile—who work, or were working, tirelessly to contain Ebola. According to the New York Times, as of November 5th, 546 health care workers in West Africa have been infected with Ebola, and 310 have died.
AHF’s Rose Parade float—which will feature a 17-foot tall rotating heart created out of over 25,000 red roses as well as an eight-foot-wide seeded floral globe symbolizing the global scope of the Ebola fight—will also have oversized floral portraits of AHF’s Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who died of Ebola in Sierra Leone on July 29th, and Dr. John Taban Dada, who succumbed to the disease on October 9th in Liberia.
And to complement and augment its awareness-raising “Protecting Global Health: Ebola First Responders” 2015 float entry in the 126th Rose Parade®, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization which now cares for over 381,000 patients in 36 countries, has put up several billboards in the greater Los Angeles area with the headline “Lest We Forget: Ebola Deaths in Africa…” The billboards feature a ticker that reads 6,914—the number of Ebola deaths in Africa at the time of the artwork’s creation two weeks ago. That number has sadly grown to well over 7,000 since the boards were created and went up earlier this week.
These new Los Angeles area Ebola billboards serve as a forceful reminder that the Ebola crisis still rages in West Africa and needs ongoing worldwide attention and assistance. The billboards also enhance and augment the message of AHF’s “Ebola First Responders” float in 126th Rose Parade®.
AHF’s “Ebola: Lest We Forget…” billboards in the campaign went up earlier this week in the following four (4) locations in the greater Hollywood area:
- Sunset Blvd. at Van Ness, N/E corner
- Sunset Blvd. at Cahuenga, N/E corner
- Sunset Blvd. at Hollywood Blvd., N/W corner (across from Vista Theatre)
- (West Hollywood) Santa Monica Blvd. and Holloway in West Hollywood, N/E corner.
Fiesta Floats of Irwindale is envisioning and constructing AHF’s 2015 ‘Protecting Global Health—Ebola First Responders’ parade entry, as it did for AHF’s previous three entries.
In 2014, the Rose Parade attracted approximately 700,000 attendees, aired live nationally on seven networks to nearly 55 million viewers, and was televised in 115 countries for an additional 25 million international viewers.
About AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to more than 381,000 individuals in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare.
