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AHF Refutes Misinformation About AIDS and Food Transmission
AHF clarifies that the viral message about a child contracting HIV in Barbados from eating contaminated pineapple is false and has no scientific basis.

Tuberculosis is Curable: What is Missing for its Eradication?
Tuberculosis, although preventable and curable, remains deadly worldwide, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean due to lack of access to healthcare.

Women and Girls: 44% of New HIV Transmissions
On Women’s Day 2025, AHF urges action to reduce gender inequality and its impact on the health of women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean.

International Condom Day: Just Use It!
AHF, the largest nonprofit in the HIV/AIDS response, launched “Just Use It!” to promote proper condom use and protection among young people.

Two out of 10 Femicide Victims in Latin America and the Caribbean Are Migrants
Urgent international action is needed to protect the health and lives of over 20 million migrant women.

AHF reaches 2 million lives in care
The organization expands its presence and is now in 47 countries operating 839 free of charge care centers for the prevention, detection and treatment of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Menstrual Poverty is a Human Rights Issue and Not Just ‘a Hygiene Matter’
One in every 3 adolescents in Latin America regularly misses school due to the lack of adequate resources to manage their menstrual periods with dignity: clean water, proper underwear, and

New Pandemic Agreement: Pharma Wins, Developing World Loses: AHF Institute
As the final Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement approaches, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the AHF Global Public Health Institute are voicing

Yes, we can end TB and AIDS.
Despite the achievements of the response to tuberculosis around the world, TB, a 100% curable disease, continues to claim thousands of lives.

International Women’s Day 2024 Empowered Women = Healthy Women
On International Women’s Day 2024, AHF joins the voice of millions of women in Latin America and the Caribbean on the road to achieve safety, equality and full respect for

February 13, International Condom Day 2024
2023 left us with a worrying increase in Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Latin America and The Caribbean, with rates remaining between 15% and 40% in syphilis, HIV, gonorrhea, and

Girls Act, in their own words
2022 marks the first five years of the Girls Act, a program which aims to provide tools for girls’ agency to use in difficult contexts and thus avoid acquiring HIV,

Treatment and prevention are the keys to ending HIV
The world has the formula to end AIDS by 2030, but that goal will not be achieved without the necessary determination and action, says the Joint United Nations Program on