World AIDS Day- AIDS Healthcare Foundation

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by Shrutee K/DNS
World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year to create awareness and express solidarity with people living with HIV around the world. Since its inception in 1988, World AIDS Day is celebrated under the aegis of  some foremost global health organizations such as National AIDS Trust, AIDS Healthcare Foundation and UNAIDS. To mark the event across the globe, AIDS Healthcare Foundation is taking initiatives on AIDS awareness in both urban and rural areas.  AHF believes that World AIDS Day is symbolically a call to enhance the social protection mechanism for people living with HIV and advocate with Governments to frame unbiased policies for vulnerable populations.
This World AIDS Day around Dec 1, I would like to explore story opportunity for an interaction with Prince Manvendra Singh, India’s first gay prince and Brand Ambassador of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. We can also provide you authored articles from the experts from AIDS Healthcare Foundation around the following topics:
          HIV BILL – The ramifications, expectations and challenge
         Adopting the TEST & TREAT strategy as an INVESTMENT TO PREVENT NEW HIV INFECTIONS IN INDIA
         TRANSGENDER BILL – Is it really working in India – A community perspective !
         The need for adopting community based testing in India to achieve –STOP HIV/AIDS
About AIDS Healthcare Foundation: (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization providing medical care to AIDS affected individuals, and its implementing arm in India. AHF currently provides medical care and/or services to more than 450,000 individuals in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Since beginning work in India in 2004, AHF has emerged as a preeminent HIV/AIDS organization. In 2006, AHF India Cares established the Centre of Excellence ART clinic in New Delhi and became the first provider to offer free ART for those who’d developed resistance to certain medications. AHF India Cares has partnered with organizations to expand access to rapid testing programs throughout the country, campaign against increase drug pricing, and promote sexual health and HIV awareness. AHF India Cares advocates for PLWHA by speaking out against stigma and discrimination issues such as excluding PLWHA from health and life insurance. AHF India Cares provides increased access to treatment by having clinics with longer operating hours and mobile testing vans in most-at-risk regions.

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