AHF 2010-2011 Progress Report

KEEPING THE PROMISE

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OUR MISSION
Cutting-edge medicine and
advocacy, regardless of the
ability to pay.

Keeping the Promise
Every man, woman and child living with HIV/AIDS must

have access to treatment—AIDS Healthcare Foundation

is committed to keeping that promise of life.

AHF Progress Report 1

Message From the President

Twenty-five years of fighting AIDS teaches you a lot about patience. It is challenging to have patience when
more than 5,000 people die of AIDS every day and even more become infected. Maintaining urgency in a crisis
that has gone on for thirty years can be daunting. But, the essential reality of AIDS remains. A still relatively
new, incurable, killer, infectious disease, that is primarily transmitted through sexual contact, has invaded
the world.

We are patient in the sense that we recognize that we cannot falter in this battle, no matter how long it
takes to win it, especially now that we are on the road to controlling AIDS in the world. A successful strategy
Many things have changed of condom promotion, rapid testing and access to treatment has resulted in more than five million people

in twenty-five years. But, currently being treated for HIV; death rates have decreased and new infections are going down.

AHF’s mission of cutting
On the other hand, we cannot become complacent. Our very success is becoming our downfall. AIDS is
seldom front-page news in many places and funding commitments are being cut or withdrawn.
edge medicine and advocacy
At this quarter of a century mark AHF has recommitted itself to the battle to control AIDS. We are marching
regardless of ability to pay toward 250,000 patients in our care worldwide. Our condom promotion and distribution systems have been

is as strong as it has ever
increased dramatically. AHF itself did more than half a million rapid HIV tests in 2010. However, most of
all AHF remains a steadfast advocate. At all levels, locally, nationally and internationally AHF clients and
been. With your support, staff are lifting our voices to change policies that restrict our ability to win the war against AIDS. Our unique

our voice will be heard ever
vantage point, as a direct care provider, greatly enhances our ability to design practical solutions that will
translate into successful strategies on the ground.
more strongly, across the
Many things have changed in twenty-five years. But, AHF’s mission of cutting edge medicine and advocacy
globe, until the fight has regardless of ability to pay is as strong as it has ever been. With your support, our voice will be heard ever
more strongly, across the globe, until the fight has been won and we can retire from the field.
been won and we can retire
from the field.”
—Michael Weinstein

Michael Weinstein
President, AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Photo of Michael Weinstein (opposite page) by Mel Melcon. Copyright © 2004. Los Angeles Times. Reprinted with Permission.

Love Condoms distributed free at the Water Festival - Phnom Penh, Cambodia AHF Progress Report 3

48 States
Visited by AHF “Magic Johnson”
Mobile Testing unit for free HIV tests

AHF’s “Testing America” Tour stopped in Birmingham, Alabama where 441 students were tested during a one-day event at Miles College

Saving Lives
Delivering expert medical care
AIDS Healthcare Foundation provides the highest-quality medical care
available for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Founded in 1987 as a grassroots Los Angeles-based in 2010. Other new clinics include the AHF “Blair
Featured in the “If Not Now...” documentary
group committed to “fight for the living and care Underwood” Healthcare Center, which opened in
for the dying,” AHF is now the largest global AIDS hard-hit Washington D.C.—the first to bear the name
organization. We provide lifesaving medical care and/ of actor and activist Blair Underwood. Meet Mariam
or services regardless of ability to pay to more than
Compassionate care is our calling card. We are proud Masaka, Uganda
166,000 individuals in 25 countries worldwide in the
United States, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the
to say that in our most recent U.S. Client Satisfaction Orphaned by parents who
died of AIDS, Mariam lives
Survey, 95% would recommend AHF to a friend.
Asia/Pacific Region and Europe.

All of our efforts are aimed at saving lives and Dispensing hope— with her grandmother. A
serving those most in need. worldwide reach little bird reminds her to
Globally, AIDS Healthcare Foundation partners with take her medication by
Ensuring access to quality care—
U.S. programs
local organizations, city health officials and national “speaking” to her from
atop a tree-branch: “It’s
ministries of health to meet the needs of patients on
AHF operates seventeen AHF Healthcare Centers the ground. AHF operates free Healthcare Centers,
in California, Florida and Washington D.C. and is offering lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART) morning, it’s morning, it’s
the largest nonprofit provider of HIV/AIDS medical and/or testing and outreach services in Amsterdam, morning” it caws. Then,
care in the U.S. The comprehensive, compassion-
ate, patient-centered care we offer is unparalleled.
Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estonia,
Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Kenya, Lithuania,
“It’s evening, it’s evening,
It includes specialized HIV medical care providers, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra it’s evening.”
access to additional specialists and seventeen AHF Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Ukraine,
Pharmacy locations, many of them inside AHF United States, Vietnam and Zambia. With the help of her
Healthcare Centers. teenaged brother Emmanuel,
In the book, “AIDS Policy in Uganda” AHF/Uganda
Groundbreaking managed care and disease manage- Cares is credited as the first free AIDS treatment clinic who walks her to AHF’s
ments programs in California and Florida round to Uganda and “the very first group in Uganda, per- free HIV/AIDS clinic each
out our wide-ranging cadre of services. For more haps in Africa, to seek to guarantee both equitable and month, Mariam Nazziwa is
information, visit: www.HIVCare.org and
now a healthy little girl.
sustainable treatment.”
www.positivehealthcare.org.
AHF is keeping the commitment to save lives around
AHF opened its fifth clinic named after and in partner- the world by providing lifesaving antiretroviral treat-
ship with basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, ment (ART) to people who otherwise might not have
Jr. in Miami, Florida with a ribbon-cutting ceremony access to it. We dispense hope through lifesaving
medical care.


Worldwide Impact 2011
AFRICA ASIA PACIFIC
AHF has a presence in: Ethiopia, Kenya, AHF has a presence in: Cambodia, China,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, India, Nepal, Vietnam
Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia • 9,436 tests administered through AHF
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• 66,845 HIV tests administered through AHF
4 • 960,000 condoms provided by AHF
• 6,500,000 condoms provided by AHF

AHF: Keeping the Promise

On AIDS 2
2.5 million people
living w/ HIV/AIDS
5 million people
living w/ HIV/AIDS

Around the world, AHF is
keeping the promise on AIDS
by providing high-quality
HIV/AIDS medical care,
testing, outreach, education
and advocacy. Our efforts
have increased exponentially Growth of AHF Global HIV Testing
over the years—and so has 820,000
our reach. We provide free 700,000
lifesaving antiretroviral
Number of people tested

600,000
treatment (ART) to 166,000
patients in 25 countries. 500,000

In addition, AHF provides 400,000
services to millions more 300,000
in many countries, including 200,000
free HIV testing, education 100,000
and advocacy. 0
2009 2010 2011 2012

THE AMERICAS EASTERN EUROPE/RUSSIA
AHF has a presence in: Ecuador, Guatemala, AHF has a presence in: Amsterdam, Estonia,
Haiti, Mexico, Costa Rica, United States Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
• 120,665 tests administered through AHF • 42,566 tests administered through AHF
• 1,900,500 condoms provided by AHF • 639,500 condoms provided by AHF

3 million people 1.5 million people
living w/ HIV/AIDS living w/ HIV/AIDS

n 2009 AHF launched a global Condom Initiative to promote
I Growth of condom distribution
access to condoms and distributed 10 million free AHF-branded LOVE Condoms
in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. The scale-up of distribution to 15 million 20 Mil
in 2010 revealed logistical and political barriers. In order to streamline the process,
AHF scaled back to 10 million in 2011. In 2012, AHF plans to distribute 20 million
and continue its drive to increase worldwide access to condoms. 15 Mil
n 2008, AHF pioneered a streamlined model of rapid HIV testing
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in order to reach more people. After 1.6 million people were successfully tested
during World AIDS Day events, AHF proceeded to implement the model in 2009 10 Mil
as the Rapid Testing Program (RTP). The program also links HIV-positive clients
into treatment. RTP reached 700,000 clients in 17 countries in 2011. AHF will test
1 million per year by mid 2013, while continuing to advocate for streamlined
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rapid models.
2009 2010 2011 2012


Breaking Barriers
Redefining the Status Quo
In the earliest days of the epidemic, AHF’s founders overcame significant
barriers to access and passed legislation to create the first licensed
HIV/AIDS facility for the terminally ill in California. The Foundation has been
breaking new ground ever since.

Nowhere can AHF’s commitment to innovation be AHF’s month-long 2009 “Testing Millions” World
From the Field: Jude Julius seen, than in its ambitious and effective testing and AIDS Day campaign set the stage for major change.
prevention programs. Through our Public Health The initiative helped shatter myths and prejudices sur-
Masaka, Uganda
Division in the U.S. and our global programs, AHF rounding large, public testing events by testing more
The first time HIV-positive provided more than half a million rapid HIV tests in than 4 million people in 23 countries in the month
Jude Sserugo brought his 2010 alone. leading up to World AIDS Day, December 1st. The
172,000 people who tested positive during the cam-
son Julius Katongole to the Testing America paign were immediately linked to lifesaving treatment.
AHF Healthcare Center in In 2010, AHF kept the promise of testing access by In 2010, the campaign evolved into AHF’s “Test
Masaka, Uganda, Julius had taking its effective community-based brand of HIV and Treat” campaign. Crowds in the thousands
just started on lifesaving screening on the road. A small team of AHF testing attended events in dozens of cities around the world
treatment. He had been counselors conducted a six-month, 48-state tour of the in the weeks before and after World AIDS Day 2010
U.S., in AHF’s state-of-the-art Testing America “Magic
diagnosed just two weeks
to get tested and raise awareness about the importance
Johnson” mobile testing unit, offering free testing at of knowing your HIV status. This groundbreaking
earlier. Little Julius was very events across the U.S. This collaborative effort suc- approach is shifting the global testing paradigm and
thin and sick then. Not even ceeded in testing 5,255 Americans and helped move saving lives. Visit www.testandtreat.org to find

riding the merry-go-round
the nation toward a streamlined, accessible HIV out more.
testing model.
in the yard of the clinic, The highly successful LOVE Condoms campaign has

brought a smile to his face.
gone hand in hand with AHF’s global testing initia-
Striving for universal access tives. This global advocacy campaign has included the
to testing
Now father and son are The majority of the 34 million people living with HIV
mass distribution of AHF’s special LOVE-branded
condoms at events around the world. The universal
thriving together. do not know their status. Those who are HIV-positive message behind the campaign—“Love Yourself, Love
but do not know it are the unwitting source of the Your Partner”—has been embraced from Estonia to
majority of new infections. AHF believes that the best Cambodia to Swaziland and beyond. For more infor-
way to contain the epidemic is to break the chain of mation, please visit: www.lovecondoms.org.
infection by getting people tested and, if needed,
linked into treatment.

8 AIDS Healthcare Foundation

34 Million
People living with HIV/AIDS worldwide

A free, AHF-supported HIV testing event in Freetown, Sierra Leone

25 Years
AHF has been leading the fight
against AIDS

“Give More, Take Less” from the Global Fund - Outside the Chinese Embassy, Los Angeles, CA

Fighting For What’s Right A Mother’s Story
Tallinn, Estonia
Overcoming Obstacles to Access Katya Jekaterina Boinova
was 18 years old when she
AIDS Healthcare Foundation continues to fight for the interests of patients
tested positive for HIV.
in the halls of power.
She remembers how her
The group’s efforts to influence public policy in the drug giant Merck Co. doubled the discount for its mother cried and her father
U.S. and globally are aimed at maximizing limited key HIV/AIDS drug Isentress to cash-strapped AIDS was shocked. Ten years
resources to deliver lifesaving medical care to the Drug Assistance Programs for low-income Americans. later she became pregnant.
She went to her doctor’s
people most in need. Key to the campaign’s success were the Foundation’s
creative awareness-raising tactics such as public
Keeping the promise protests, e-letters, postcards and train station banners appointments and took her
Funding reductions threaten to undermine the
placed at platforms near the company’s headquarters. pills everyday. “Rejoice!
progress in the global HIV/AIDS fight. Commitments
Similar campaigns led Bristol Myers-Squibb, Gilead
Sciences Inc. and Johnson Johnson to follow suit.
Her baby was born healthy.
made to men, women and children around the world Mother and child are both
doing well.”
through programs such as President George W. Bush’s Contributing to the success of AHF’s advocacy is
landmark AIDS funding program the President’s the rapid growth of its online community’s more than
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are not 500,000 supporters. Active Facebook and Twitter pages
being kept. provide the latest HIV/AIDS news and action alerts.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation is dedicated in its efforts
to keep the promise of life to all people living with Bringing the message home
HIV/AIDS. We lobbied successfully in Washington AHF is leading the way toward normalizing HIV and
D.C. to ensure PEPFAR funding focused on lifesav- STD (sexually-transmitted disease) testing. In California
ing medical care. AHF providers and patients from and Florida, innovative and accessible billboard and
Uganda and South Africa speak to Senators and their print-ad campaigns have become a regular fixture.
staffers to personally bring home the notion that With eye-catching graphics and thought-provoking
treatment equals life. AHF is also holding countries messages, the ads direct viewers to find a testing
accountable to promises made through the Global location at: www.freehivtest.net.
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosisi and Malaria and
A trio of successive billboard campaigns posed the
is a leader on Global Fund reform efforts.
questions “Sexually Active? “Sexually Risky?”
“Sexually Reckless?” These groundbreaking ads have
Ensuring social responsibility broadened the target audience for sexual health social
Our advocacy is aimed at encouraging drug companies marketing and have led people to seek testing, through
to lower prices and increase accessibility. Whether the AHF Wellness Centers, www.freeSTDcheck.org or
need is affordable generics for patients in the develop- other healthcare sources.
ing world, or lower prices for safety net programs that
Join the conversation at www.facebook.com/
serve low-income Americans, AHF continues to raise
its voice in the service of saving more lives. After an
aidshealth and www.twitter.com/aidshealthcare.
innovative, years long campaign spearheaded by AHF,

Innovating For Humanity
Sustaining Advancing
Innovative thinking—followed by bold action—is what has kept AIDS Healthcare
Foundation at the forefront of efforts to end the epidemic.

Thriving in uncertain times Shifting the paradigm
AHF’s ability to maintain our independence is Having successfully operated the Florida AIDS Walk
a core strength. In addition to donations and (www.FloridaAIDSwalk.org) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
A Life Changed grants, AHF self-funds though unique social enter- since 2006, in 2010 AHF launched the 1st annual
Francisco Sarabia, Mexico prises. Our successful retail chain of twenty-one California AIDS Walk. The California AIDS Walk ush-
Out of the Closet Thrift Stores in Southern California,
At 8 months pregnant,
ered in a new era of AIDS fundraising events, offering a
Northern California and South Florida, have gener- food and music festival in Los Angeles’ beautiful Griffith
Oronia Hernandez found ated millions for the organization since the first store Park, as well as a dance concert at the historic Greek

out her husband was HIV-
opened in 1989. Many locations also offer free and Theatre. In addition to raising funds for AIDS Healthcare
confidential HIV testing. To learn more, visit: www. Foundation, the California AIDS Walk also benefits other
positive. She tested positive outofthecloset.org. local HIV/AIDS organizations that serve traditionally
and thought she was going AHF’s non-profit, retail pharmacies help the orga- underserved populations, such as African-Americans,
Latinos and women. www.walkeatdance.org.
to die. Oronia is raising her
nization to self-sustain. With seventeen locations
in California, Florida and Washington D.C., AHF
3 children and doing well Pharmacy reinvents the idea of a local, neighborhood Expanding our reach
on treatment from the pharmacy as a way to give back. As actor, activist and
AHF spokesperson Blair Underwood says “Any phar-
AHF continues to go boldly toward where its services are
needed most. Just as the organization has in other parts of
AHF Healthcare Center in macy can fill a prescription, but there’s only one that the world, AHF is bringing its high-quality medical care
Mexico City, Mexico. can change lives.” and services to places where the epidemic is growing in
the U.S. and where existing services are minimal. Already
The Foundation’s latest advancement is the opening
“My life is changing now of several “all-in-one” locations in which an AHF
longtime partners in six free AHF “Magic Johnson”
Healthcare Centers, three more such centers are planned
that I am on my treatment. Pharmacy—or even an AHF Healthcare Center—is
for Atlanta, Georgia, Ft. Worth, Texas and Brooklyn,
located right alongside an Out of the Closet Thrift
I would tell people that Store location, offering many convenient services all
New York. In addition, AHF will bring its unique brand

live with HIV to think
of fundraising to the midwest, with its 23rd Out of the
in one place. www.AHFPharmacy.org.
Closet Thrift Store opening in Columbus, Ohio—along
positive. You think that you Ninety-six cents of every dollar earned by Out of the with an AHF Pharmacy, free HIV testing and a nearby

are going to die. But if you
Closet and AHF Pharmacy goes right back into AHF’s AHF Healthcare Center.
innovative treatment, prevention and outreach pro-
take your medication, you grams in the U.S. and globally.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation will continue its 25-year
tradition of innovating and keeping the promise to ensure
will not die.” that every man, woman and child who needs access to
HIV/AIDS services, has it.

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To learn more about AIDS Healthcare Foundation and its programs, please visit: www.aidshealth.org.

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AHF Board of Directors Senior Management GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS
Rodney L. Wright, M.D. Michael Weinstein General Secretariat
Chair of the Board President Keizersgracht 518
Cynthia Davis Peter D. Reis 1017 EK Amsterdam
Domestic Vice Chair Senior Vice President The Netherlands
Diana Hoorzuk Penninah Iutung Amor Tel. +31 (0)20 626 6267
Global Vice Chair Bureau Chief, Africa Regional Bureau Offices
Lawrence Peters, M.S. Laura Boudreau, Esq. AFRICA BUREAU
Treasurer Chief Counsel for Operations 1 Baker Road
Agapito Diaz Scott Carruthers Kampala, Uganda
Secretary National Director of Pharmacy Tel. +256 414 346 311
William Arroyo, M.D. Wayne Chen, M.D. ASIA PACIFIC BUREAU
Mary Ashley Sr. Medical Director of Managed Care #14 Street 99
Acting Chief of Medicine Sangkat Boeung Trabek
Curley L. Bonds, M.D.
Terri Ford Khann Chamkarmon
Steve L. Carlton, Esq. Senior Director of Global Policy Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Condessa Curley, M.D. and Advocacy Tel. +855 23 221 606
Laurent Fischer, M.D. Lyle Honig EUROPE CENTRAL ASIA BUREAU
Scott Galvin Assoc. Chief Financial Officer Office 12, 10 Malopidvalna Str.,
Judith Marsh Michael Kahane Kyiv, Ukraine 02000
Elizabeth Mendia Bureau Chief, Southern Region Tel. +38 044 2797436
Angelina C. Wapakabulo Tom Myers, Esq. LATIN AMERICA BUREAU
Chief of Public Affairs and Calle San Luis Potosi #223
Michael Weinstein
General Counsel Colonia Roma Delegacion Cuauhtemoc
Anita Ann Williams
Laura Nelson CP 06700 Mexico DF
Chief Financial Officer Tel: (+52)55 52648208

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