AIDS & Health News

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the U.S. State Department, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and The Global Fund will further invest in Gilead’s twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention medicine, lenacapavir, to expand access for up to an additional 1 million people, bringing the total commitment up to 3 million people in high-incidence, resource-limited countries through 2028. Bringing together th...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Protests: AHF Blasts Gilead Over Extortionate AIDS Drug Pricing...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Global Public Health Institute and UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health will convene a high-level parliamentary roundtable dialogue, Financing Health Equity and Security, on April 14 – a breakfast side event to the 2026 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group. The critical discussions will unite parliamentarians, global health leaders, and key stakeholders participating in the Spring Meetin...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF Slams Gilead for Role in Florida AIDS Drug Crisis...

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Shionogi as a shareholder, today released “Still Here,” a social media video campaign designed to spark crucial conversations about HIV among young people. This launch coincides with National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and aims to confront the alarming reality that HIV remains a significant and often overlooked public health issue, especially among young people. While great progress h...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Billboards Tout AHF as Top HIV Provider, Promote STD Testing...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On World Health Day, observed annually on April 7, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) calls for global solidarity to fight infectious diseases and urges key global leaders—particularly in Europe—to help deliver it by advancing an equitable World Health Organization Pandemic Agreement, including a binding and enforceable Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) Annex. Without equity, there can be no Pandemic Agreement. World Health Day comes at a critical juncture f...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Impulse Group Condemns SCOTUS Decision Undermining Protections for LGBTQ+ Youth...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today mourned the passing of Stephen Lewis, a Canadian diplomat, humanitarian, and a prominent advocate in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Lewis, who served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from 2001 to 2006, brought urgency, moral clarity, and global attention to a crisis that was too often overlooked at a critical moment in the epidemic. Lewis helped push the world to confront the s...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is urging governments meeting in Yaoundé, Cameroon, at the WTO 14th Ministerial Conference to ensure the continuation of the longstanding moratorium on certain intellectual property disputes—known as “non-violation complaints”—under the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). This moratorium has helped protect countries from WTO challenges for using TRIPS flexibiliti...